At the time, the play looked incredibly close. Where I was sitting beyond the right-field fence, I couldn't be sure whether or not the throw beat the batter. The umpire called David Ferreira safe, so Dario Pizzano's run counted and the game ended. Finally getting to watch it on the TiVo, with slow-motion and frame-advance playback, it's clear the throw enters Garrett Staudt's glove six frames (0.2 seconds) before the batter steps on first. Ferreira was out, and that game should've gone another inning. But the play was so close, I'm not sure you can expect an umpire to get that right. But that's baseball...
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- Jason Lindquist (
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Jason Lindquist
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At the time, the play looked incredibly close. Where I was sitting beyond the right-field fence, I couldn't be sure whether or not the throw beat the batter. The umpire called David Ferreira safe, so Dario Pizzano's run counted and the game ended. Finally getting to watch it on the TiVo, with slow-motion and frame-advance playback, it's clear the throw enters Garrett Staudt's glove six frames (0.2 seconds) before the batter steps on first. Ferreira was out, and that game should've gone another inning. But the play was so close, I'm not sure you can expect an umpire to get that right. But that's baseball...
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