cardinals why you so free? you realize this isnt online play…stop acting like scrubs…least make it a challenge for us hahah
cardinals still feelin out the sawx, they aint gonna blow their entire load on game 1 like those bearded hipsters
Might want to tell that to Peavy.
lol what just happened here? Walk-off obstruction?
Pretty much. Wether he tripped him on purpose or not doesnt matter
It doesn’t matter, but it’s definitely a bullshit call regardless. Dude slides into Middlebrooks’ legs and then they call him for being on the ground.
I agree with the call (as it’s how the rules define it). What I’m not sure I agree with was the decision to throw to 3rd in the first place when you didn’t have a clear out.
Or maybe it was a good idea and shitty throw.
Didn’t see the game, just watched the replays. If he had laid there and did nothing, no call. He definitely stuck his legs up in the air a second time, that’s some A-Rod shit. Reporter even asked “you didn’t raise your legs intentionally?” He saw it, of course he denies it, he has to. But from what I’m looking at, he kicked his legs upwards a second time right as he saw dude trying to run over.
5 feet inside the baseline he keeps saying in this interview, pretty gross exaggeration. I’m with the umps on this one, you never want to be the story of the game, but sometimes you gotta call that shit. Again, if he keeps still, or at least keeps his legs down, I don’t think there’s a call there. His legs went down, and then clearly, easy for anyone to see, kicked back up in the air. There’s your call. Sucks to see a game end like that, but the call had to be made.
That’s not exactly true. The official rule on obstruction has this part:
It’s up to the umpire to call it, but just lying there doesn’t mean a no call.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2013/official_baseball_rules.pdf Page 24 has the full definition.
Throwing to third was a dumb move by saltala. He shouldve just held it, you dont try to be fancy in that situation. Bad throw bad decision bad trip… Now that the dust has settled im over the call. Also wtf were they even pitching to jon jay for, walk him to set up a DP.
Still like boston in 6 if this motivates them and makes them angry
Saltalamacchia has always been an underperforming catcher since his days with the Rangers. That is his second throwing error this series. I haven’t followed the Red Sox this season but I wonder why Napoli doesn’t play catcher instead of First Base/Bench player. Napoli isn’t some slouch behind the plate and the guy has been very productive at the plate since his Anaheim days.
Depends on who was up next (I didn’t get to see it), but I don’t like the throw either. The call was right though, and I’d hate it myself if I was a Sox fans (and I’m a Cards fan), but that doesn’t change what the correct choice was on the ump’s part.
It was definitely a shitty throw. I think it could’ve been an out, or at least would’ve been close, with a better throw.
Of course Middlebrooks did it intentionally. Whether or not he did it consciously or instinctually is the question, and that doesn’t matter in the actual call. The big thing to me is that you had the runner interfering with the play by sliding into the fielder’s legs, and another when the fielder stuck his legs up. One gets called, other doesn’t.
He’s old. Catcher is brutal on the knees. It’s no coincidence that the Sox use him as a first baseman and get 140 games out of him, while the Angels use him at catcher and get 70-110.
Yeah I agree that the rule works that way, however if he doesn’t intentionally lift his legs up a second time, I feel like the ump probably lets it slide. There’s no way Craig is TRYING to trip over someone who just keeps his legs down and out of the way. He hops those legs more easily if Middlebrooks keeps them down, and there’s probably not going to be a call.
The ump COULD have called it either way, but I don’t think he calls it if there’s no intent, even though the rule doesn’t require intent. If he doesn’t try to A-Rod this shit and lift his legs up intentionally, I think he gets away with it.
I don’t know about that. Craig stumbling over Middlebrooks in his attempt to run might be enough to get called even if Middlebrooks’ legs don’t come up. Dude was in bad position no matter what thanks to Salty’s bad throw.
But what I want to know is, since it’s the Cardinals and it’s the World Series, were there any suspicious squirrels nearby?
After rewatching it from the left field angle, I think that Salty’s throw was off, but fieldable if Middlebrooks’ legs weren’t taken out from under him.
Yeah the slide was interference but when has THAT ever been called in baseball lol
Knew that loss wouldnt mean shit. Sox in 6 lets go
HAHAHA OH MY GOD this is the dumbest world series ever!
Wowwwwwwwwwww Beltran finally gets to the WS, and some SCRUB gets picked off when he’s up in the 9th. So bad lolololol
Just posted that in the MMA thread, watching that actually made me dumber apparently