wildcats20;1206701 wrote:Exactly.
But no, there are no dead balls in baseball :rolleyes:
You and your bud are clueless. Yes time was called. My example showed a situation where time is not called...which happens a lot in baseball Then what? I can't help you any further.
Let's try another example....a no hitter is allowed because a shot down the third base line is ruled foul. On replay, the ball clearly hit the chalk after crossing the bag. How you gonna over rule that? Or should I say, overrule? What if the bases had been loaded and the same scenario played out?
This is not a hard concept to understand, really. And it's been discussed ad nasuseum that baseball cannot enforce "challenges" for these very reasons. Home run calls do not fit in the realm of typical baseball action...so they allow them to be reviewed.
Hope that helps.
As for throws in the dirt...yes...the errors go to the thrower. That rule should be changed. A true short hop should be caught in major league baseball. If an infielder bobbles a ground ball short hop, is he not tagged with an error? Not talking about an in between hop which is 10 times tougher to catch, but a short hop is flat out easy. Time to change the scoring rule. It's almost as dumb as the "you can't assume a double play" nonsense. Why can't you? Dumb.