Did Porter protest the game?

[Angel Oracle]

This is the same guy that butchered the pitching change rule.

[Ray McKigney]

Hoe was out at 2nd. I can't believe the umpires actually changed it to the correct call. 

[Angel Oracle]

Exactly, yet the fool is out there arguing for like 5 min.

[shellback]

This is the same guy that butchered the pitching change rule.

that was hilarious. i mean, my god, the guys an mlb manager and he doesn't know that rule?

should have been tossed last night just for delaying the game.

[Ray McKigney]

that was hilarious. i mean, my god, the guys an mlb manager and he doesn't know that rule?

should have been tossed last night just for delaying the game.

 

Apparently, the umps didn't know the rule either because they allowed it.

[Hollyw00d]

Vargass

[John Smith]

Jeff Fletcher ‏@JeffFletcherOCR 

#Astros mgr Bo Porter concedes umpires got the call right last night even though the way it was reversed was unusual.

[HaloMagic]

I commend Bo Porter for admitting that. Most managers would just say they haven't seen the replay yet until the media stops asking them about it.

[disarcina]

this is Saturday's game -- I have never seen that before -- where an ump completely butchers a judgment calls (safe/out) that does not involve a technical rule issue/ interpretation and the Umps confer and actually CHANGE the judgment call decision.

 

I don't have a problem with that and, particularly, where it leads to the right call..........but I've never seen that.

 

And in some ways, I disagreed with what the umps did (agreeing with Houston manager Porter here) because that's just not done and if it's going to be done there needs to be a proper protocol to ensure consistency --- if we're going to have instant replay on calls like that -- fine -- but that's not what they're talking about and certainly isn't being done now -- If were are going to change the unwritten rules of the game and allow judgment calls (not technical rulebook issues/ calls) to be subject to a conference of umps and possible reversal -- that needs to be fully explained and the circumstances in which that can be done fully clarified.........

 

In the end  in this case, the right result occurred. Not sure how the umps got there - seemed to be a reversed call influenced by instant replay.

 

First argument on a judgment call I've seen Scioscia or any manager win........