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What Happened
In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Arizona Diamondbacks lead the game 2-0 with two runners on base and no outs. Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll takes off for third base and the umpire calls him out. Carroll is confused by the call and argues with the umpire, convinced he was safe. The Diamondbacks decide to challenge the call and the replay center begins reviewing the play. The replay officials have three different camera angles to analyze the play. The broadcaster shares two of these angles, allowing viewers to see the action from multiple perspectives. In the first angle, it appears that Carroll's foot reaches the base before the catcher's glove makes contact. In the second angle, however, there is a possibility that the catcher's glove may have brushed Carroll's leg as he slid into the base. The broadcaster walks the viewers through the frames, point by point, to help determine whether Carroll was safe or out. He notes that in the first angle, the corner of the base can be seen moving, indicating that Carroll's foot made contact with the bag. However, the second angle leaves some uncertainty about whether the catcher's glove touched Carroll's leg. The broadcaster acknowledges that the original call was out and the replay officials must be 100% certain to overturn the call. Despite his belief that Carroll was likely safe, the broadcaster understands the high standard required to reverse the umpire's decision. The Diamondbacks' manager, Cormacow, remains skeptical of the original call's influence on the replay review, arguing that it should not carry so much weight when the play is being questioned. Ultimately, the replay officials uphold the original out call, much to the frustration of the Diamondbacks and their fans. The broadcaster expresses his uncertainty about the decision, as the replay angles did not provide a clear-cut answer on whether Carroll was safe or out. The game continues with the Diamondbacks still trailing by two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentLet's play a game. You guys are in the booth. You're doing reviews for Major League Baseball.
You have these two angles synced up and you have to say, is he safe or is he out? Just based on
these two angles, okay? Now, I'll walk you through it. Okay, the glove is going to the foot and on
the right side, I think in the next couple frames, he hits the bag. You can see, look, the very
corner of the bag on the right, you can see it start to move right there. The very bottom of it
moves right there. Okay, right there. I think we can positively say the foot is on the bag
right there, but is his glove touching his leg? Now, shift your eyes to the left side of the
screen. Are the laces of the glove touching his leg? Could they have...
be brushing his leg right there? Ah, let's watch it again in live time without me going frame by
frame. What do you think? What do you got? Well, here was the situation. There was two on, no out,
bottom of the fifth, Diamondbacks were up two and Corbin Carroll takes off for third and the umpire
says, out! And Carroll's just looking around and catcher's excited about it and Corbin Carroll just
like, I don't think so, man. I don't think so. And the umpire says, oh, okay, Arizona's going to
challenge the call. They think I got it.
I don't know if I got it right, but I think I'm good. And then they showed us the replay center
as they were making the decision, which I thought was really cool. In international sports, you can
hear the third umpire saying, rewind that back. Let me see it again. Let's compare frames. They
don't do that in baseball. So I thought, let's try and figure out what they were doing. We have
their screen here. This is the play that they're looking at. I was able to recreate the board here.
So we have that video and then we have that video and then we have the next one.
They never showed the second replay on the broadcast. So I don't have that, but these are
the three angles they have here. And then if I looked over here on this screen, they synced up
those two because those are the most telling of the two angles where you have to see them side by
side and figure it out. And that is what I showed you at the very beginning of this. And you guys
made your decision. Now I think that he's safe, but I really slowed it down, went frame by frame,
saw that base. I can't say,
with 100% positivity that there wasn't a lace of his glove that touched his leg in the other shot.
But if I didn't have the weight of the original call, I would say, I think he's safe. They have
the weight of the original call have to 100% be positive. And the original call was out. So it,
it, it remained out. And I don't know. Cormacow's like, okay, all right. Whatever you say,
sexy. I don't think that the original call should have that.
Because it's the very thing being questioned. So why does it have power?