Angels Official Website: Angels lose challenge in key spot in ninth

[AngelsWin.com]

The Angels lost their first challenge of the season on Monday night, when Howie Kendrick was thrown out at first base on a bang-bang play with none on and one out in a one-run game in the bottom of the ninth.

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[QuinlansMinion]

I would hardly call it a key spot.  Freese was due up anyways.

[arch stanton]

That's a whining whiner's thing to say. Calling him safe there changes the whole inning. I thought for sure it would get overturned but it looks like they'll side with the ump (who was caught out of position because he didn't expect the bobble) on anything not blatant.

[happybat4]

Wow just saw the replay. He was safe. I do not get this whole review thing. They have already had so many blown calls.

[nando714]

Was that a bad call...yes

But that didn't cost us the game

Was it the 0-18 for the #4-8 spots in the line up? Or Ernesto blowing up in the 9th. A combination of both

[nando714]

Wow just saw the replay. He was safe. I do not get this whole review thing. They have already had so many blown calls.

Baseball umpires are the worst officials in all of sports.

[Sully151]

Does a tie no longer go to the runner?

[HaloMagic]

A tie never went to the runner. That's little league stuff.

He was called out. A tie means there isn't enough to overturn it. I agree. I saw nothing in the replays that would have made me overturn the call. It could have gone either way on the field. It didn't go our way. If the call was reversed and Melvin challenged I'd expect the same thing. The play was too close for a challenge to matter.

Edited April 15, 2014 by HaloMagic

[jsnpritchett]

A tie never went to the runner. That's little league stuff.

He was called out. A tie means there isn't enough to overturn it. I agree. I saw nothing in the replays that would have made me overturn the call. It could have gone either way on the field. It didn't go our way. If the call was reversed and Melvin challenged I'd expect the same thing. The play was too close for a challenge to matter.

 

Exactly.  Sosh and Kendrick are whining about how "obvious" the call should have been, and people on here are acting like he was safe by 20 feet.  It was a bang-bang play.

[WallyWorld]

Exactly.  Sosh and Kendrick are whining about how "obvious" the call should have been, and people on here are acting like he was safe by 20 feet.  It was a bang-bang play.

 

agreed. it was not an egregiously bad call.