The catcher moved to catch the ball. I like Jake but he should have gone right. I hardly see runners slide to the left at home plate on close plays.
Buck Compton said:Thats not a thing.HossAg said:Marvin said:
Jake swerved left to avoid the catcher. Lucroy moves towards the ball and they collided. How can you call that interference?
Because Jake went out of the base path. If he stayed in the base path and that happened, then that's fine.
Pretty accurate, but he didn't decide to bowl him over. Another Key piece is catcher missed the ball and it was already past him when the collision happened.CoachRTM said:
I don't know the ins and outs of the rule, but it looked like this to me :
1. Jake starts to go inside
2. Lucroy (looking at the ball) adjusts to the inside
3. Jake has a split-second decision to attempt to dodge the catcher or barrel him over. He ducks his head and shoulder intentionally to hit the catcher.
4. Ball gets to the catcher before Jake does.
If that means he's out, he's out.
Maybe you're right... but watching the replays it looks to me like Jake went into him on purpose. Hell fellas, I want him to be safe - I'm just telling you what I see.Flexbone said:Harry Dunne said:this is the way I saw it. I'll be curious to see what unbiased parties have to say. I am 100% Astros and I still think Jake went into him on purpose.TexAgBolter said:
Guys. He diverted left to hit him. Don't know what y'all are watching. Unfortunately for runs, good call.
You need your eyes checked.
CFTXAG10 said:
"Might as well put them in bubble wrap if you want to call the game like that" - Lance Freaking Berkman
he just needs a new girlfriend.Frok said:CFTXAG10 said:
"Might as well put them in bubble wrap if you want to call the game like that" - Lance Freaking Berkman
Correa probably does need bubble wrap
New York ruled like they did because it looked violent and Lucroy was knocked out. That's it. It was an emotional one, not a rational one.W said:
Jake tried to avoid contact, but ultimately he didn't.
that's what New York didn't like
Completely agree.Weekend Commuter said:
It was typical of what we see now in sports where sometimes the violence of the play (and the fact that a dude was knocked out and laying there with a bloody face) just LOOKS like something that someone in their ivory tower in NYC must do something about. And they did.
Marisnick is going very fast down the line and must make a split second decision at some point which direction to take and he did. Lucroy followed him to that spot. And was still moving when Marisnick hit him... I would have supported the call had Lucroy been stationed somewhere and never moved. But he couldn't do it in that situation. So it should have been a no call. Completely agree with Berkman on that.
Harry Dunne said:
Good thing we pinch ran Jake. Yordan would have a literally killed Lucroy.
You're blind. Jake's ass hit the plate as he ran through Lucroy. I'd say that's a decent path to the plate.HossAg said:
Here's the explanation everyone in here needs to ****ing read. The rule states that the runner has the right to an unobstructed base path that the catcher cannot block. I have no issue with contact being made in that scenario. What Jake should have done is just stick to the base path and if Lucroy was in the way, plow him. But he didn't, and I don't care what his intention was, he ended up jumping out of the base path towards the catcher and ****in nailing him, and that's gonna be called out every time based on the intent of the rule. If he had just stayed in the base path, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because he would have either scored effortlessly or hit Lucroy in a 100% indisputable legal play.