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Official 2007 MLB Season Thread

Ok someone explain what happened during the Cleveland Baltimore game.
Veteran umpire Ed Montague took the blame for a run being added to Baltimore's total three innings after it appeared to be waved off in the Orioles' 7-4 victory over Cleveland on Saturday night.
The Indians played the game under protest after Montague, the crew chief, called the official scorer in the bottom of the sixth to add the third-inning run which scored on a sacrifice fly.
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The bizarre sequence started with Baltimore leading 2-1 in the top of the third. Nick Markakis was on third base and Miguel Tejada on first with one out when Ramon Hernandez hit a line drive to center field.
Indians outfielder Grady Sizemore made a diving catch. Markakis tagged up, headed for home and appeared to cross the plate before Tejada doubled off first. Plate umpire Marvin Hudson waved off the run.
Orioles bench coach Tom Trebelhorn disputed Hudson's call before the start of the fourth, and Hudson then conferred with Montague and the other umpires.
"We kicked it around and now I'm having a brain cramp on it," Montague said. "So I sent Bill (umpire Bill Miller) in, I said 'You know what, cause we're debating, you go in. Lets make it 100 percent sure."'
Miller checked the rule and said the run should have counted. Montague was vague about why it took until the sixth to make the change, saying "it kind of went on" with the umpires conferring with the managers.
"It was my screw up and we can't go off of umpire's error," he said. "What's right is right. We have to score the run."
Montague said he couldn't remember anything like it happening and didn't blame Wedge for his protest, which will be decided by commissioner Bud Selig's office.
Wedge protested the game because the change was not made immediately.
"I know the umpires have a tough job to do, but there is a process and there are rules," he said. "When the next pitch is thrown, that's it. The fact is the home plate umpire waved it off. I've never seen runs put on the board three or four innings later."
Baltimore manager Sam Perlozzo said Trebelhorn alerted him that the run should count.
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I just watched it on ESPN.com. It seems the umps realized they made a mistake in an earlier inning so they counted runs that they had previously said did not happen, thus causing Clevand to lose. should be interesting to see how this turns out.
 
The thing I don't get is how the umps don't know the rule. Im sure they did not have to check the rule book for such an obvious rule. Might they have been watching a replay?
 
MacNut said:
The thing I don't get is how the umps don't know the rule. Im sure they did not have to check the rule book for such an obvious rule. Might they have been watching a replay?
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A replay? You mean baseball get with the current century?

It wouldn't surprise me, but until teh rulez™ change then we'll never know.

Between the entire officiating team, someone should have (and most likely did) know the rule. Just a strange occurance, I look forward to what seligs gonna say.
 
Absolutlely crazy stuff about Hancock, and hoping it, and the metaphor it represents, doesn't get lost in all this Red Sox/Yankees banter.

Apparently Hancock failed to wake up on time for Thursday's game and received "20 phone calls" (seems like hyperbole) from "anxious teammates" before picking up his phone.

Eerie line from the St. Louis Dispatch just two days ago:

St. Louis Dispatch said:
With righthander Darryl Kile dying before a game in Chicago five years ago, the Cardinals don't take it lightly when a player doesn't show up at the park on time.

Reliever Jason Isringhausen, the only pitcher still on the club who played with Kile here, said, "(Hancock's) phone always shuts off. Everybody was trying to reach him. That's why it's so different here because of what happened with Darryl. So everybody worries. That's got more to do with it than oversleeping.
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Link.
 
Absolutely tragic. The Yankees had a moment of silence for him before the start of the game.

Anyways, Doug Mientkiewicz just hit a 3 run homerun. Yea, I'm just as surprised as you are.
 
So now it looks like we've got two Yankees-Red Sox threads. I think I can speak for fans of the other 28 major league baseball teams, when I say: :rolleyes:
 
IJ Reilly said:
So now it looks like we've got two Yankees-Red Sox threads. I think I can speak for fans of the other 28 major league baseball teams, when I say: :rolleyes:
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Couldn't have said it, better.

Tragic Sunday for STL. They also seem to have the worst home record of any team, this season. Hoping things will turn around for them.
 
Wow, what a marathon in San Diego. The Dodgers finally manage to scratch across a run in the top of the 17th, and they go on to win it, 5-4.

It's a good thing it didn't go one more inning, or else Petco Park would've had to charge everyone for 2 ballgames. :eek: :p
 
IJ Reilly said:
So now it looks like we've got two Yankees-Red Sox threads. I think I can speak for fans of the other 28 major league baseball teams, when I say: :rolleyes:
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Meh- While I'd love to talk about the Braves- it seems only me and furcalchick care enough to do that. It's just the red sox and yankees are a big overhyped rivalry that everyone can talk about.
zephead said:
Wow, what a marathon in San Diego. The Dodgers finally manage to scratch across a run in the top of the 17th, and they go on to win it, 5-4.

It's a good thing it didn't go one more inning, or else Petco Park would've had to charge everyone for 2 ballgames. :eek: :p
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Imagine an 18 inning post-season game with your postseason dreams on the line.

Thats a marathon- (I think it took years off my life)
 
zephead said:
Wow, what a marathon in San Diego. The Dodgers finally manage to scratch across a run in the top of the 17th, and they go on to win it, 5-4.

It's a good thing it didn't go one more inning, or else Petco Park would've had to charge everyone for 2 ballgames. :eek: :p
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I turned that one off in the 14th. I had to leave, but probably I couldn't have taken another inning of it anyway. I'll be at Dodger Stadium tonight to watch an exhausted Dodger team face the streaking D-backs.

mattscott306 said:
It's just the red sox and yankees are a big overhyped rivalry that everyone can talk about.
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Yeah, we can talk about what a crushing bore it is to hear about almost nothing else.

Look at the NL West -- it's already a brawl between three very good and closely-matched teams, fierce rivals all. This one's probably going to be a nail-biter right into September.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Look at the NL West -- it's already a brawl between three very good and closely-matched teams, fierce rivals all. This one's probably going to be a nail-biter right into September.
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And the NL east between the Braves and Mets isn't? First place has changed hands how many times in the past week?

There is alot of great baseball everywhere.
 
mattscott306 said:
Oh ok, just didn't want the focus to shift on you west-coasters, after all east coast baseball is teh shiz :p
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"teh shiz"? Unless it's a new way to spell "the sh..s" to get it past the profanity filter, I'll take the west coast varity that actually involves some pretty good pitching over your east coast version. ;)

Now, if the Giants could swing a trade for another legit hitter, they may really be in this race. You folks in Atlanta want to give up Andruw? :D
 
Sayhey said:
"teh shiz"? Unless it's a new way to spell "the sh..s" to get it past the profanity filter, I'll take the west coast varity that actually involves some pretty good pitching over your east coast version. ;)
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Touche my friend, touche. (shiz is supposedly Hebrew for sh*t).
But we will ignore the fact that we have the ERA leader... :cool:
Now, if the Giants could swing a trade for another legit hitter, they may really be in this race. You folks in Atlanta want to give up Andruw? :D
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sadly he'll be a free agent after this season- it doesn't appear that our new owners are gonna pay to keep him 'round.
 
Early reports is that Phil Hughes might be out 4-6 weeks with a pulled hamstring. We went into the 7th with a no hitter and felt a "pop".
YesNetwork.com said:
Dazzling.
That's just one of many adjectives that can be used to describe Phil Hughes' performance against the Rangers on Tuesday. One by one, members of the Texas lineup fell like dominos as Hughes fooled them with his pitches, primarily a low-to-mid-90s fastball with location plus a looping Barry Zito-esque curveball. Thanks to a hamstring injury, fans will never know if the 20-year-old would have become the youngest pitcher in American League history to throw a no-hitter, but just like his first start against Toronto when he showed no visible signs of nerves, Hughes' performance was another validation that his future is now and it's at the Major League level.

"He was really dominating," said Mike Mussina after the game. "He felt well and knew where the ball was going. It's everything you hope for when you take the mound. To have to leave ... in that fashion in that kind of game is disappointing and frustrating."
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http://www.yesnetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070502&content_id=1423555&oid=36019&vkey=4
 
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