Sentences with phrase «umpires calling»

The team found the same pattern in baseball umpires calling strikes, and immigration workers recommending asylum.

Coaches, players, even umpires call me that.

Should the umpire call him out?

But the umpire calls him out.

This Little League Umpire calling the Australia - Puerto Rico game has to be one of the best umpire's in all of baseball...

As soon as the ball was returned to the infield, the umpires called time for a brief ceremony, and Swan, Montanez and Catcher John Stearns obligingly left the field lest they clutter up Rose's moment.

«It's like Jackie Robinson stealing home, the umpire calls «safe,» but you're never sure whether he was right or wrong.»

Umpire calls are flat ad mundane, the crowd noise is the same whether there are 1000 people watching a TAC game or 90,000 at the MCG.

Not exact matches

No, I'm not talking about the terrible call that softball umpire made recently.

It is unfortunate that a World Seriesn't game had to end on an obstruction call but the umpire got the call absolutely correct.

As umpire John Hirschbeck himself explained in an interview after the controversial game — the only World Series contest ever to end on an obstruction call — intent does not matter:

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

I will start by saying that I have been an umpire for over 20 years, umpired 100s of games from Little League to Junior College and I would guess that I have made an obstruction call in less than 1 % of those games.

No other umpires, no other needed input from the peanut gallery, no instant replay to see if God got the call right.

I don't know a single umpire who would have not called that, and I would have absolutely called it in that situation.

The umpire who made several questionable calls in Serena Williams's quarterfinal loss to Jennifer Capriati was fired a day later.

Either forgetting or remembering that the mike is turned on, Reggie turns to the umpire and, fearful of being walked, orders room service: «Call the next one a strike, no matter where it is.»

The plate umpire stands there behind that balloon and calls every pitch from the same angle.

Having his leg extended clear across the plate long before he got the ball is the violation here, and according to the rule the umpires can then call Culberson safe.

Even though that type of call isn't reviewable, Roberts convinced the umpires to at least convene, which is when they... reversed the call?

Five days later he was banished from a game, fined and suspended for three games for pushing the plate umpire after a third - strike call.

It had just started to drizzle in Baltimore when Umpire Frank Umont called for the tarpaulin, but a spectacularly shoddy performance by the Orioles» ground crew left the first - base line uncovered during the ensuing cloudburst and forced the game to be canceled.

So, what the umpire said went as the call on the field, and McClelland eventually got to calling Matt Holliday safe for his slide into home plate in extra innings.

Sure, the call went your way, but somewhere deep down, you know the Red Sox sweeping the Rockies was retribution from the baseball gods, a punishment for benefiting from the interference of an umpire who ended a game that seemed like it was never going to end, that would probably still be being played right now if not for that botched call because dear lord this game had everything but also was great mostly because it was terrible.

He challenged umpires nose - to - nose whenever he was called out on strikes and kicked dirt every time he made an error.

In 1935, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball commissioner, barred Husing from covering the World Series for having called the umpiring in the previous Series «some of the worst I've ever seen.»

Simpson: Usually when that play occurs the umpire makes an instant call, so everybody knows.

Matt Holliday scored the winning run in Game 163 of the Colorado Rockies» 2007, but only because the umpire, Tim McClelland, blew the call.

Well, really, the umpire paused because he didn't know what happened: he wouldn't call Holliday safe for another three or four seconds after the play, and you can tell based on that pause that he made his decision solely based on the ball being loose and Barrett scrambling for it since there had not yet been a call.

If the umpire saw the runner miss the base, he will call him out.

He would then appeal to the umpire to call the man out.

«Frank Thomas is the worst one for that, and umpires won't call inside strikes on him.»

The umpire, thinking the ball had hit the bat, called Strawberry out.

Baseball has several such situations where the umpire does not make a call unless the defending team asks him.

But the Tigers had called a pitchout, and Fahey, the supposed pigeon, threw Henderson out at second — at least in the opinion of second base umpire Durwood Merrill.

He virtually ignores the inside pitch, knowing the umpire is not likely to call one a strike and the pitcher doesn't want to risk inciting a brawl or give up a home run by throwing one.

Ruled by right - field umpire Fieldin Culbreth as a foul ball at the time, Orioles manager Buck Showalter asked for a review of the call, which was upheld.

Owners have ignored recent suggestions to raise the pitching mound or to insist that the umpires expand the strike zone to the dimensions that are called for in the rule book.

«If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead, the umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the following runner because of the action of his teammate.

But when Herzog and the rest of the Cards ranted on about the ninth - inning bad call at first base costing them Game 6 — the St. Louis Post-Dispatch chimed in by calling AL umpire Don Denkinger «Jesse James» — it was as if no umpire in World Series history had ever missed one before.

«In my heart, I thought he left too soon,» umpire Tim McClelland said after calling the Yankees» Nick Swisher out for leaving the bag early on a sac fly.

Managers may now invoke instant replay from the dugout and will no longer be required to approach the calling umpire to challenge a call.

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

* An umpire is already using vision and hearing to make calls (vision obviously; hearing is used to detect foul tips and I suspect it also subconsciously plays into pitch framing).

Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.

Glasnow shouldn't be at the whim of the umpire who doesn't feel like he has «earned» those calls on the edges.

is that all calls are left to the plate umpire, but that the umpire is provided input from the automated system.

Suspended Two T - ball coaches, for their part in an Aug. 28 brawl in which nearly two dozen adults stormed the field during a Miami Friends Baseball Association game and began fighting over an umpire's call as the four - and five - year - old players watched.

There are a number of umps who tend to favor pitchers on borderline calls and my hypothesis was that Phil Cuzzi, Ron Kulpa, Bill Miller, Ted Barret and Doug Eddings — who are renowned for having the largest strike zones in baseball — would be among the most profitable umpires for betting unders.

Turns out that person was in the audience, because both the chair umpire or line judge called the shot in.