Venting time: the evil, evil White Sox just "won" the most embarrassing, disgraceful game baseball has seen since the pine tar incident some 25 years ago
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A couple things: First of all, it depends on how the umpire was calling strikes. The way the strike call motion is taught at umpire school, yes umpire school, is that pump that is used to recognize an out is also a simple strike. It really depends on how the umpire was calling strikes throughout the night. What looks like what happened here is that there was no verbal announcement from the umpire that it was indeed an out - and Pierzynski, as a catcher would have picked up on that little issue. When he didn't hear the verbal strike out he took off. Paul, as the catcher who DID catch the ball, assumed it was an out and so then headed off the field without waiting to hear the verbal. That being said, it doesn't change the fact that the umpire was wrong. Additionally, I'm sorry, but I really hope the Sox win. It's a Western Division Rivals thing. I hope we can still be friends. =o)
Oh, I understand that, technically, the fist motion can be used to indicate a strike. In practice, though, in that situation, it's never used that way. I bet you could pick a thousand "K 2-3s" and a thousand "K E-2s" at random, and you wouldn't see the umpire use that motion in any of them until the out was actually recorded. After he made that motion, Paul and everyone else on the field was totally justified in thinking the inning was over, unless the umpire made some verbal signal to Paul that explicitly said the opposite, which there's been no indication he did. And all that is ignoring the fact, of course, that it was a horribly blown call, and an unforgivably stupid one.
Of course we can still be friends...we're just on hiatus until the Sox lose. :)
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First of all, it depends on how the umpire was calling strikes. The way the strike call motion is taught at umpire school, yes umpire school, is that pump that is used to recognize an out is also a simple strike. It really depends on how the umpire was calling strikes throughout the night. What looks like what happened here is that there was no verbal announcement from the umpire that it was indeed an out - and Pierzynski, as a catcher would have picked up on that little issue. When he didn't hear the verbal strike out he took off.
Paul, as the catcher who DID catch the ball, assumed it was an out and so then headed off the field without waiting to hear the verbal.
That being said, it doesn't change the fact that the umpire was wrong. Additionally, I'm sorry, but I really hope the Sox win. It's a Western Division Rivals thing. I hope we can still be friends. =o)
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Of course we can still be friends...we're just on hiatus until the Sox lose. :)
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