Non-Cubs Playoff Games Thread

[Guest]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

 

there was no chance whatsoever of toronto making the play

[kente777]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

 

It may have been different had there been a chance to throw out the runner. There was no way of that, so the wave off is irrelevant.

[NOLA]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

 

there was no chance whatsoever of toronto making the play

It doesn't matter if they could or couldn't.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

That's not how that works.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Wow...

[LeonDurham]

Heads up play by Odor.

 

Not sure if baseball has the same rule as football- play is over with the whistle. In football, this rule exists largely to protect players who can seriously injure each other if they continue playing through a whistle.

[Tracer Bullet]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

 

there was no chance whatsoever of toronto making the play

It doesn't matter if they could or couldn't.

 

Like I said, got a rule?

[kente777]

Heads up play by Odor.

 

Not sure if baseball has the same rule as football- play is over with the whistle. In football, this rule exists largely to protect players who can seriously injure each other if they continue playing through a whistle.

 

Agree.

[Guest]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

 

there was no chance whatsoever of toronto making the play

It doesn't matter if they could or couldn't.

 

the example you just used was about whether or not they could.

[kente777]

Moot point now. lol

[NOLA]

This game...

 

Wow.

[philosophizer75]

Oh god bautista launched one

[bcl412]

Toronto scares me the most but that was kinda awesome.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Not sure if baseball has the same rule as football- play is over with the whistle. In football, this rule exists largely to protect players who can seriously injure each other if they continue playing through a whistle.

Umpire discretion. It's like a ball hit down the line that's called foul but on replay it hit the line. The umps determine where they beleive the runner would have ended up.

[Tracer Bullet]

If the Cubs weren't still in it, I'd want Toronto to come out of the AL. But I do not want to face that lineup.

[LeonDurham]

This kind of game is much more fun when you're team has already advanced.

[Guest]

oh man, what a monstrous staredown after that home run

[LeonDurham]

holy crap.

[Irrelevant Dude]

These fans are idiots.

[Guest]

Not sure if baseball has the same rule as football- play is over with the whistle. In football, this rule exists largely to protect players who can seriously injure each other if they continue playing through a whistle.

Umpire discretion. It's like a ball hit down the line that's called foul but on replay it hit the line. The umps determine where they beleive the runner would have ended up.

 

Umpire discretion via replay was literally added with the advent of replay. The default has always been when play is ruled dead, anything that was potentially in progress is dead, regardless of intent, spirit, etc.

[Isaac Vines]

Odor was not halfway down the line when the ump clearly called timeout. Runner should be at 3B.

 

Man, WHAT are you watching...he is actually about 3/4 of the way down the line by the time the ump waves for time. You must have some heartfelt sympathy toward the Blue Jays or something.

Um, no.

 

He was about halfway, but my point is that it doesn't matter because the umps can't award home plate after a time out. It's like an inadvertant whistle in football. If a ref blows a play dead, a team could pick up a fumble and run it back for a TD and it wouldn't matter. A dead ball is a dead ball.

 

Where are you getting that rule from? This is not football. How can an ump call 'time' in the middle of a live ball? If a batter hits a double to the wall, and is 3/4 of the way to second the ump cannot just call 'time' and tell the runner to go back to first base. Even if the second baseman has fallen and broke his leg the ball can't just be dead in the middle of live action when a runner is 3/4 of the way to a base without any valid interference to make to ball dead.

[bcl412]

This is the most insane game I've ever seen.

[philosophizer75]

Yeah this game is [expletive] bonkers

[LeonDurham]

How many Alex Gonzalez plays were there in that inning. At least we can empathize.

[Guest]