My understanding is that the umps have some extra in-stadium cameras at their disposal, most notably an overhead one, but that wouldn’t be helpful in this regard. There were more angles on the telecast, and they all showed the same thing. #RootedInOakland #oakland /Vcl7fF7tKa- Jose Carlos Fajardo September 6, 2020 Cut and dried.Ī's Robbie Grossman attempts to score at home plate as San Diego Padres pitcher Garrett Richards applies the tag in the second inning of their game at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Sept. His foot is on the plate, with the tag not yet made. Still not convinced? Here’s a still frame to really drive it home (pun absolutely intended). Go swipe your hand as hard as you can an inch over some dirt and see how much of it flies wildly into the air. Unless there was too much iron in the soil and he had a magnet in his shoe, there’s no other way that happens. The dirt begins flying before his foot is even past the batter’s box, and continues uninterrupted all the way up to the plate. Similarly, how do you know if a runner’s foot is down while he slides? Look for the dirt spraying up around it while the foot moves forward. How do you know if a ball landed on the foul line or just on the wrong side of it? Look for the chalk kicking up into the air, which is a surefire sign due to the laws of time and space and physics. All it takes is a small amount of critical thinking. (Side not: Any reason that can’t happen?) But if anything, Grossman’s play was even more obvious. Of course, we can never know what happened on any play for absolute certain unless there’s a sensor on the plate that activates when it’s touched. The fact that they both went against the A’s isn’t even relevant it’s the inconsistency that’s the problem. This is where I have a problem, because on Friday they were comfortable using their best judgment to determine the exact same thing about Olson, with enough confidence to overturn a call, but then they wouldn’t do so on Sunday despite similarly convincing evidence. The question is whether Grossman’s foot stayed down as it crossed the plate, or popped up like Olson’s had. You should only need a quick look at the first two angles of the above tweet video (or the closeup photo below) to determine that. To begin, there is no doubt about whether Grossman beat the tag. Super helpful.Ībsent any semblance of transparency from the league, we’re left to our own devices to judge this incident. You really accurately described the definition of an out. This is what both teams were told after Grossman call was not overturned: After viewing all relevant angles, the Replay Official could not definitively determine that the runner’s foot touched home plate prior to the fielder applying the tag. The umpires offered an explanation for their call, via Susan Slusser of the S.F. Grossman was called out on the field and after review /dl5Lsl375z- A's on NBCS September 6, 2020 It went against my team, but this is how I imagine a proper use of replay working. The call was reversed, and Olson was out. Matt Olson slid into home and was called safe, but the replay suggested that his foot popped a couple inches up before it reached the plate and then didn’t come back down until after the tag was applied. We’re not here to play butterfly effect, just examine the replay review itself. But this isn’t like when Oakland had the winning run wiped off the board in the 9th inning against the Yankees in 2018, with the win directly robbed from them. Certainly, it would have increased their odds. Sure, a correct call would have given them another run in a tight affair, and extended an inning and given them momentum and yadda yadda. This is not an article about how the A’s should have won this game. This latest example doesn’t add anything new except another data point, but with each egregious error the case becomes clearer that the system isn’t working and needs to be reformed.īefore we continue, let’s clarify the point. It’s wildly inconsistent in its application and makes an astonishingly high number of mistakes for a system whose entire purpose is to mitigate mistakes. This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about the replay review system this season. MLB botched another replay on Sunday to steal away yet another run from the Oakland A’s, and this might have been the worst one we’ve seen yet.
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