Runner misses home plate & Brewers use loophole to review it, a breakdown

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off so the 3-1 pitch from burns who's

having an amazing season is put in play

but wong can't come up with the ball

so you got to run a run first i mean it

would have been a nice play

it kind of eats them up but you do have

the runner on first the next one is just

a little dribbler down the line we're

gonna pick it up we'll check the runner

all good okay all good so now you got

two on and no one's really gotten a full

hit yet and then another bloop and yelly

can't come up with it and that's still

not

a hard hit ball so you got bases loaded

man on third man on second man on first

no one out in a bit of a jam nice pitch

for strike one

fastball away cutter right down the

middle for strike two goes for the swing

and miss curve swings

barely hits it up the line another

dribbler throw at home

he's safe what happens is the umpire's

supposed to be watching the runner's

foot

but instead the ball starts coming at

him so naturally he's

looking at the ball that's about to hit

him and not the runner's feet

and you can see him kind of just say

safe i'm going to guess he stepped on

home plate because

normally 100 percent of the time they

just step on home plate there

but he didn't actually see him step on

home plate because the ball ricocheted

and hit him

which i'm fine with now they don't

challenge it

right away they have a mound visit which

gives them a lot more time

to look at the replay and they say hey

fix your hair real quick make sure you

look good because we're about to pull

an appeal step off the mound and throw

home and appeal at home

and the umpire says time and he thinks

he wants a new ball no burn says no

we're appealing that he steps he says

well

okay safe and then he looks he's like i

got him at safe

and then council's gonna come out and

he's gonna talk to him and he's gonna

tell him

i think he missed home plate and i think

it's interesting that he says i think

because by this point they watched

the replays they're positive he missed

home plate but they're acting like it's

a guess

which is weird and you're like well i

had him safe and he said well can you

check on it and he goes to the crew

chief he says i think he missed home

plate

now the crew chief says but you had him

hitting it and he says yeah and he said

well we want to check on us

okay let's check on it maybe the home

plate umpire okay let's bring it out

maybe the home plate umpire

knows that hey i wasn't really watching

because the ball was coming at me

so let's check on it or this is a legal

replay

but yeah he definitely missed home plate

and then never touched it and home plate

just

looking lonely right there all by itself

and this guy says safe and he says no

out he says no safe and he says no

out that's out no that's safe so these

guys are debating it pretty hard and

then they say it's out and he says i

told you

out and he's like oh how he says

larry says hey come here real quick

hey you why don't you come here real

quick and council's like

he made a mound visit you can't then

have a replay

after the mountain visit and they say

well no he didn't he had a replay on the

appeal not the play and louise

oh you sneaky what

what uh hold up what confusion

galore counsel says oh are they on to us

and he says hold up time out real quick

i worked in the front office with joe

torre and we put in place

that you could not have use a mound

visit to stall

so real quick what this is interesting

Tony russo worked with joe torre in the

front office when they implemented

replay

and they saw all the ways that it was

getting game because you only have

20 seconds to challenge a play

now they didn't challenge that he missed

home plate

in that 20-second span they sent a guy

to

the mound to do a pitching visit and

that gave them more time to look at the

replay then they appealed

then they challenged the appeal it does

seem like a huge

loophole because the challenge how

baseball wants it to be is it has to be

so

blatantly obvious that you can see that

it's wrong in 20 seconds you can't

just go fishing for stuff wildly so i

don't know

in some parts of my head i feel like

this is legal

and some parts of my head i'm like

that's definitely a loophole you bought

yourself more time

and larussa is telling them he's saying

i thought that we implemented something

that you cannot

challenge a play after the mound visit

you have to do it before the mountain

visit the umpires were like well i don't

know i mean

that seems pretty in the weeds if you

say you work for the front office then

maybe like

we can get together and discuss it so

they get together and discuss it like

anyone know what he's talking about and

he's like this is

let's let's figure this out council's

like what is he complaining

about now and then they come back and

they're like it's fine and he's like no

i i swear there's a rule that says you

can't do that

i'd like you to call new york and ask

them so they get on the phone

with new york and this is just a rule

book check and the fans were like what

the hell is this all about what's going

on

and they get there and then they say hey

Tony yeah no rule

says that's illegal uh that's totally

legal and he's like okay well

uh seems messed up but we'll continue

the inning continues

and burns walks the next batter and

maybe that's the great equalizer in all

of this they get their run

then he's going to throw a nice strike a

nice strike

and a really nice curveball

for the second out of the inning look at

that

break it just dives at the end beautiful

then he's gonna get anderson to fly out

and escapes the inning only gives up one

run that's the only run he'd give up in

the game

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