Infield Fly Rule Call Causes Riot at Braves-Cardinals Wild-Card Game
The infield fly rule gives umpires the discretion to call an automatic out on a popup with more than one runner on base, largely to prevent the team in the field from intentionally letting the ball drop so they can get an extra out, since the runners ...latino.foxnews.com
MLB Playoffs: Infield Fly Rule Disputed Call Leads To Renewed Cries For ...
Andrelton Simmons hit a pop fly that dropped safely in left field after a mix-up between two fielders, either able to have caught the ball easily.www.huffingtonpost.com
White: Umpires made correct call on infield-fly rule
2012 - Follow closely the controversial infield-fly play in the Braves-Cardinals game and you'll see the Infield Fly Rule applied as the rule book suggests. If there's any argument about the result of umpire Sam Holbrook's out call, it's a disagreement ...www.usatoday.com
Text of the infield fly rule from the Official Baseball Rules
Rule 2.00 (Infield Fly) Comment: On the infield fly rule the umpire is to rule whether the ball could ordinarily have been handled by an infielder - not by some arbitrary limitation such as the grass, or the base lines.www.washingtonpost.com
Infield Fly Rule Controversy: Braves vs. Cardinals Wild Card Game Includes ...
True to its name, the Wild Card playoff game between the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals got wild in the bottom of the eighth inning when the umpires invoked the infield fly rule on a fly ball to left field off the bat of Andrelton Simmons ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Infield fly what? Complicated rule, disputed call mars Cardinals wild-card win ...
The infield fly rule gives umpires the discretion to call an automatic out on a popup with more than one runner on base, largely to prevent the team in the field from intentionally letting the ball drop so they can get an extra out, since the runners ...www.washingtonpost.com
Infield fly rule and Braves fans throwing bottles mar Chipper Jones' possible ...
That should have let the bases be loaded, as Simmons' pop-up was not caught and the runners could advance. But one of the umpires called the infield fly rule, which is a rule in place to prevent infielders from purposely dropping a pop-up when there ...blog.zap2it.com
Infield Fly Rule: Rundown of How Rule Came into Play in Cardinals vs. Braves
The infield fly rule is, by design, supposed to keep things in order. MLB's official rule states, per Bleacher Report: MLB's official language on the infield fly rule: twitter.com/BleacherReport… - Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 6, 2012 ...bleacherreport.com
St. Louis Cardinals vs. Atlanta Braves: Umpires Get Infield Fly Rule Call Right
When left field umpire Sam Holbrook ruled Atlanta batter Andrelton Simmons out on the infield fly rule in the bottom of the eighth inning of the Cardinals vs.bleacherreport.com
Atlanta Braves Dispute Infield Fly Rule Call By Sam Holbrook In 6-3 Loss To ...
ATLANTA - Just like last year, the Braves lost out on a spot in the NL division series to the St. Louis Cardinals. Only this time, Atlanta was knocked out with the help of what will be remembered as one of the most disputed infield fly calls in ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Braves blew it before infield fly rule call
Holbrook invoked the infield fly rule in the eighth inning, with the Braves trying to rally from a 6-3 deficit. Andrelton Simmons' fly ball to short left field dropped safely, but Simmons was already out after Holbrook judged the fly ball covered by ...overtime.blogs.pressdemocrat.com
Cardinals top Braves after infield fly rule goes against Atlanta
But left-field umpire Sam Holbrook called Andrelton Simmons out under the infield fly rule - even though the ball landed 50 feet beyond the dirt.www.kansascity.com
Infield fly ruling draws Braves' ire, sparks disruption
Kozma was approximately 90 feet onto the outfield grass when the ball dropped between him and the charging Holliday, and the umpire's arm didn't go up to indicate the infield fly rule until a moment before the ball hit the ground. "I went back and I ...mlb.mlb.com
Braves vs. Cardinals infield fly rule call the right move (say contrarians)
The infield fly rule call that punctuated the St. Louis Cardinals' Wild Card win over the Atlanta Braves with 18 minutes of flying garbage looked inconceivably wrong at a glance—they're rarely called as far out as Pete Kozma was when he thought he was ...stlouis.sbnation.com
Infield Fly Rule Causes Uproar In Braves-Cardinals Wild Card Playoff
On Friday Night in Atlanta, a fly ball landed in the outfield grass, but was ruled an out based on the infield fly rule. That decision helped a team move on in the playoffs.www.neontommy.com
Video: Making Sense of the Braves-Cardinals Infield Fly Rule Controversy
Heading into Friday's Braves-Cardinals showdown, the general concept of play-in Wild Card games was pretty controversial in itself.www.opposingviews.com
'Trashy' infield-fly call hands Cardinals playoff win over Braves
ATLANTA - The image of left-field umpire Sam Holbrook and third-base umpire Jeff Kellogg raising their fists in the air to signify an out call on a pop to short left via the infield fly rule last night won't be as indelibly etched in the country's ...www.nypost.com
The infield fly rule riot: probably the last baseball event that hadn't ...
From sometime in the 1890s all the way up until Friday's Wild Card play-in between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves, the infield fly rule was everyone's default baseball joke. It's a synecdoche for the caricature of baseball people claim ...stlouis.sbnation.com
Infield fly heard 'round the world will linger
But it will be what I think was a blown call, or at best a stretch of the infield fly rule, that will linger. Jones, a certain future Hall of Famer, disagreed, after saying he cost his teammates the game when he threw wildly into right field on a ...mlb.mlb.com
The Braves Just Played Under Protest Thanks To A Bizarre Infield Fly Rule Call
They called the infield fly rule on a ball that landed there? To be clear, a ball doesn't have to land in the infield for the infield fly rule to apply, but it does have to land somewhere where the umpire judges that an infielder could have caught it ...www.sportsgrid.com
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