Mike, that’s fine but…that call on Alonso/McNeil must be explained by MLB. Alonso is clearly moving back to 1B. Was he running BACK to 1B? No. Is that the expectation? Sprinting?
MLB must puy out clarificatio today. Either the ump is right ad players must run back after a foul or the ump is wrong and they stop this BS in its tracks.
They should make the players stop and do 50 pushups every time they don’t hustle back.
This is the perfect example of giving Umpires arbitrary powers. My initial thought was they would use it against the egregious “slow” play. Instead what you get is yesterdays nonsense. Base runner walking back to first called a strike. In my mind that is not the intent of the rule but the Umpire felt differently. Lets just wait until a game is decided by one of these and that’s when the shit hits the fan.
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What a turn around by Senga after not getting anyone of first 4 Marlins out to come and get the next 3 (with thanks to Marte). His next few innings were sweet--killer drop on fork ball. Needs a "low ball" ump.
I didn't realize they were playing now. I saw the 10 and then I saw we had 2 hits. Not a good day at all.
2 1/2 hours of my life that I’ll never get back.
