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05/25 CUBS (Arrieta) @ St. Louis (Martinez) 12:45 CDT, ABC7

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STOP BUNTING

 

even the one that worked was highly questionable as it was done with 2 strikes.

 

At the same time, the Cardinals have consistently proven that they have trouble fielding Cubs bunts.

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STOP BUNTING

 

even the one that worked was highly questionable as it was done with 2 strikes.

 

At the same time, the Cardinals have consistently proven that they have trouble fielding Cubs bunts.

That was probably Caesar acting on his own, though.

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That makes me want him shot, but great move by Yadi.

 

Great move? He blatantly cheated. If the correct call was made, Yadi just screwed his team out of a 1st and 3rd opportunity.

 

i'm not sure i've ever seen that call made

I distinctly remember Eric Young getting called for it in a game against LA when he was with the Cubs.

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i'm fairly certain that was in fact CBB

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200404170.shtml

 

Close, he was at 3B. Eric Cooper behind the plate.

well [expletive], what am i thinking of that happened forever ago that made us all hate CB

 

 

Third-base umpire Chuck Meriweather left Friday's game at Wrigley Field in the fifth inning because he was sick with food poisoning. Opposing managers Dusty Baker of the Cubs and Dave Miley of the Reds probably consider that fitting turnabout since the umpiring during the Cubs' 11-10 victory made them sick.

 

Miley was ejected in the fourth inning after he came out to intervene in an argument over a called third strike on Sean Casey. Casey was incensed after he was called out on a pitch that appeared to be out of the strike zone. Home plate umpire C.B. Bucknor gave Miley the thumb, but Casey remained in the game.

 

 

 

Baker followed Miley's exit with his own in the seventh, a highlight-reel blowup.

 

Baker made a double switch at the start of the seventh, replacing shortstop Alex Gonzalez with Ramon Martinez and pitcher Todd Wellemeyer with fellow reliever Kent Mercker.

 

Baker wanted Martinez batting ninth so he would lead off the Cubs' seventh. Gonzalez, the eighth-place hitter, had made the last out in the sixth, so his spot wasn't due up again until the Cubs had gone through the order.

 

After Martinez led off the Cubs' seventh with a double to left, Reds bench coach Jerry Narron, the acting manager, inquired as to whether the double switch had officially been made. The umpires huddled and ruled that it hadn't, though it had been announced in the press box.

 

"They brought in a new pitcher and a new shortstop and never informed the plate umpire there was a double switch," umpire crew chief Mike Reilly said. "It's the responsibility of the team making the switch to inform the home-plate umpire. Otherwise they go in the batting order the way they appear. C.B. Bucknor was never informed."

 

Baker charged out of the dugout, and Bucknor ejected him almost immediately. During the heated argument that followed, Baker flung down his lineup card, then threw his hat and kicked equipment in the Cubs' on-deck circle.

 

"I was looking at [bucknor] the whole time, trying to get his attention, and he never looked over," Baker said. "He said he did look over, but I know darn well he didn't. He never looked. I kept looking, looking, looking, and then the game started and I figured he must have it figured out on his own. He told me it was my responsibility to go up and tell him. But he never looked over."

 

Normal procedure, Baker said, is that the umpire looks over and the manager gestures that a switch is being made.

 

"Guess I was wrong" Baker said. "From now on I have to go up and tell him."

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