Umpire admits he was wrong in the World Series, a breakdown

Stays with the fastball up top. It gets fouled off. Goes to a breaking ball.

It's way below the zone. This fan loves it. Love the take. Love the pitch.

I'm not sure. Back to the low and away fastball. Swinging bunt. Guzman grabs it.

Throws it to Olerud. Pulls him off the bag. Dion, he's

a fast guy. Safe. Double helmet, neon Dion sign in the back. It's 1992. Ola

Rude wearing a batting helmet at first. Guzman fields this pretty nicely

into the bare hand, gets a grip on it. Little tiny reload, but

fires it high. So now we've got a runner on first base. I told you

they're 13 for 13 in stolen bases. The Braves liked running, and when they ran,

they felt good about it. So Dion Sanders at first base, and surely they're gonna

keep them close. Now this was a different time in baseball. Pickoffs could go on

for a long time. We got one pickoff, we got two pickoffs. Olerud throws the

tag down there, nothing. We got three in a row before a pitch is thrown.

Deion Sanders is like, okay, well, I'm getting tired now and annoyed by all of

this. Throw a pitch. No, a fourth pickoff before a pitch was

thrown. Pendleton at bat like, what about me? Okay, I'm getting bored and a pitch

fouled back. Big ol' swing. And then let's go back to the pickoffs safe. That's

the fifth pickoff and this is the sixth. And this one I actually found very

interesting because Olerud kind of bumps him off the bag going for the ball. He

gets shouldered a little, Deion Sanders. But I don't know the rule on that. But

he comes off the bag. Like he's off the bag right there and the glove

is on his waist. And right there the glove's in his armpit. And Deion's foot

is not, you know, he touches the bag right there. You can see the dust,

the white powder come up. So I wonder if they had the ticky tack replay

that we have now, would this, would he have been out right here, which would

have negated the whole purpose of this video and what we're about to get to.

But Olderwood kind of bumped them, so I don't even know if there's any rules

about that. Finally, the second pitch and Pendleton bored out of his mind, slaps a

single to right field. Sanders is on second, a little dodging of the ball, says

what up. Alomar's gonna come up to him and they're gonna chat and laugh, a

little bump, little what's up dude, how are ya? And then, young David Justice steps

to the plate. Another lefty against the righty, Guzman, here's where things get fun. The

first pitch is a low fastball, hammered to center. Devon White is running, running,

tracks it down and grabs it, throws it back in. Surely you can double off

someone. They double off the runner at first and now they're going for a triple

play because Deion broke for third. Kelly Gruber, third baseman, dives to get him. They

say, safe, safe, safe. Kelly Gruber says, I tagged him right on the foot.

Oh, come on. No, I saw daylight. You gotta be kidding me. I'm trying to

tell you. I tagged him right on the foot. Oh, can't believe it. I

got him on the foot. All right. If you're being honest. All right, I believe

you, but I saw space there, so I gotta go with what I saw. Oh,

all right. Okay. Kelly Gruber actually said that The umpire was nice guy.

He said, he told me, Kelly, you might have, but I saw daylight. Gerber said,

I was dumbfounded. I was used to the American league umpires who were quite confrontational.

So shout out to the national league umpires. Joe West is behind the dish. Devon

White is like, what about my play? Is this going to ruin the play I

made? Like, are people not going to talk about it? Cause it was really nice.

And it was really nice. And for people that don't watch a lot of baseball,

I, I love this. He checks to see where he's at. Sees the warning track.

is coming up, turns back, finds the ball, and then plants one foot on the

track, second foot on the track, can tell by the feel of the ground, that's

all he's got. Notice he's gotta leave his feet and brace for the wall just

in time. Woo hoo hoo, to get that. What a catch by White.

Kevin Kiermaier said he was his favorite center fielder. growing up and yeah, very good.

Seven gold gloves. Now I didn't tell you about this, that runner on first Terry

Pendleton, he was out cause he ran past Deion Sanders. So the outfield did not

even need to throw to first base. Look at Deion, like get back dude, get

back and don't touch me. But he did touch him. And I think that he's

kind of out there cause that could be Sanders assisting him. But anyway, he's out.

They do not need to throw to first base, but by throwing to first base,

they, allowed themselves the opportunity at a triple play because Dion saw that

and ran to third. If they had thrown into second base, it would have just

been a double play because Sanders would not have taken off for third, but he

took off for third. Kelly Gruber tracked him down and tagged him on the heel,

which was missed by the umpire who said, save, save, save. No, I

saw daylight and Kelly Gruber, oh, come on. What?

He's like, I tagged him. It was a triple play. It would have been the

second triple play in World Series history. And he's like, he might have been right.

You know? Damn, he might have been right. And they asked him about it in

the papers afterwards. And Bob Davidson admitted today that he was wrong on the call

during Tuesday night's Game 3 here that prevented the Blue Jays from turning the second

triple play in World Series history. When I first called the play, I thought I

was 100% right. It was right there. It was right in front of me. Then

I saw the replays and the picture. And I thought, ah. I probably missed the

play, but that's baseball and I have to turn the page and go on today.

No one feels worse about it than I do. I don't like to miss plays.

Gerber told me right away he had gotten his heel. He was professional about it

though, and it was no big deal. I thought I was correct at first, but

then I saw the pictures and I had to admit I probably missed it. Damn

pictures. Always correcting things. Sanders now on second base. There's two outs in

the inning. And the first pitch is outside. And next pitch is outside. And I

like the sequencing here because you still see he's just playing with that outside edge.

The first pitch, breaking ball, no chase. The next pitch, he's like, all right, well,

if you're not going to chase, I'm going to throw one for a strike. On

the outside, Joe West gives him the call. Now they've established we're throwing on the

outer edge. And he says maybe now he'll chase it because he just saw it

for a strike. So he throws a breaking ball off the plate and... Almost chases

it, but does not chase it. Sanders stays at second base. Three breaking balls on

the outside edge in a row. I think he's got him ready for the fastball

on the outside. Here it is. And what a pitch. Nice. And another one, a

little more outside. See, this was the one he swung at. And it's actually, he's

throwing that to try and get a strike on the outside. And then he says,

well, you're swinging. Well, let's throw another one even more off. See if you chase

that. He does not. So now the count is full, three and two. And Guzman

says, all right, no, I don't want to get cute. Let's just blow one by

him. Bam, fastball, outer half, strike three. The missed call doesn't really matter. All it

cost him was some extra pitches, but maybe those just got Guzman fired up and

in the zone because he's feeling good now. And a little overlay just because I

have access to 60 frame per second footage of archives, which is awesome. That's the

two pitches. One falls off, one stays true. Kelly Gruber thinking, ah, I really wanted

the triple play though. Would have been cool.