Word: umpireã
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Baseball is different. While in most sports the actions made are straightforward to call, such as players keeping their feet inbounds or shots going in before the buzzer sounds, every single play in baseball requires an umpire??s personal call: Ball or strike, safe or out. While baseball has a rulebook and a defined strike zone, it is easily the most subjective thing in sports. Any player can tell you that no two strike zones of an umpire are the same. Thus, this problem was one that so far could not be broached by technology; the instant replay...
...trend of increasing instant replay consultation for unclear calls will continue in professional sports of, but more trouble may come from the case-by-case nature of its implementation rather than the umpire??s original decisions. The high tech camera may be able to say exactly what part of the strike zone the curveball hits, but it will never be able to regulate the complexities of organized competition and professional athletes. Referees may keep instant replay up their sleeves, but it’s their efforts that will keep the games going...
...Franczek came barreling home from third with Kramer ready to take a booming throw from Crimson rightfielder Matt Rogers. Kramer sustained the collision with Franczek and held on to the ball to record the inning’s third out, but a scuffle between the players after the umpire??s initial call quickly emptied players from both sides...
...want to win. No, I don’t want to have to qualify a win with, “Oh, well, there was this one play where the umpire?...
...catcher would have to turn all the way around [to receive the sign] and the umpire??d be in the way,” Walsh said. “I was never able to sit in the dugout in my nine years to be in sight of the catcher. I’d have to be up the line...