One of the problems most people have when trying to interpret, or understand, baseball rules is that the rules aren’t necessarily guided by what is considered common sense.
…wearing umpire’s garb.
Players, and on some occasions managers, are quite often among the least informed — and yes, that includes former players now making a living in the broadcast media. The Orioles’ game in Seattle Tuesday night was a perfect example of this as not one but two rules were misinterpreted.
O’s manager Dave Trembley was thrown out of the game after a bitter argument — but that appeared to be more because of a comment made by plate umpire Tom Hallion than the rule interpretation itself — until Hallion later indicted himself with a bad interpretation.
In the broadcast booths, Jim Hunter, Jim Palmer, Tom Davis and Rick Dempsey were all having tougher games than Hallion — they just didn’t realize it. There were two plays in question during that game and both were ruled on by Hallion, who was wrongly taken to task both times.
The first came in the first inning, when Luke Scott, who hit the two-run single, and Nolan Reimold were only allowed to advance to second and third base respectively…
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