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Friday, April 20, 2007 |
Molina Gives Blanco The Reacharound — But Not A Triple Play
In today's Cards @ Cubs game: in the bottom of the seventh, with Henry Blanco at bat and Jacque Jones and Mark DeRosa at first and second respectively, Blanco attempted a bunt to move over the runners. Popping the ball up instead, Cards catcher Yadier Molina reached around Blanco to catch the pop. He almost succeeded.
Instead, Molina dropped the ball. Quickly recovering, he picked it up, tagged Blanco, and threw to second. Shortstop David Eckstein fielded the ball and threw to third for the tag out of DeRosa.
Triple play, right?
Not so fast.
Blanco was automatically out for batter's interference when he failed to get out of Molina's way to make the play. Jones and DeRosa returned to their respective bags thanks to Rule 6.06(c):
Rule 6.06(c) Comment: If the batter interferes with the catcher, the plate umpire shall call “interference.” The batter is out and the ball dead. No player may advance on such interference (offensive interference) and all runners must return to the last base that was, in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference.Update: Yes, you're right, Seitz, there was no force at second with Blanco already out at the plate. Bob Brenly said there was, which is probably what put the idea into my head in the first place; no wonder he's no longer running the Snakes. Corrected the players after reviewing the play.
Labels: cardinals, cubs, rules
Comments:
What the hell is a presumptive force? If he tagged Molina out, there's no force, period, and therefore there was never an out recorded at second base. So even if it hadn't been interference, it would only have been a double play, unless Jones was put out some other way.
Man this post is confusing...
Instead, Molina dropped the ball. Quickly recovering, he picked it up, tagged Molina...
He tagged himself?
Molina was automatically out for batter's interference when he failed to get out of Molina's way to make the play
He's out because he didn't get out of his own way?
I think you're getting your Molinas and your Blancos mixed up :)
Instead, Molina dropped the ball. Quickly recovering, he picked it up, tagged Molina...
He tagged himself?
Molina was automatically out for batter's interference when he failed to get out of Molina's way to make the play
He's out because he didn't get out of his own way?
I think you're getting your Molinas and your Blancos mixed up :)
Both slow-moving, defense-first, hispanic catchers. It was almost like a family reunion at the dish. :-) Christ, I can't believe I made that many screwups. Rushing to get it out, I guess.
Molina did not tag Blanco. Here's what happened:
Blanco popped up a bunt, not very high, and almost directly up. Blanco did not run, apparently thinking the ball would be foul. Molina reached one arm around each side of Blanco's head to try and catch the ball, he failed, and the ball dropped to the ground. The runners, who had held up, then took off. For some unexplained reason, Blanco still does not run. (It's possible he knew it was batter's interference.)
Molina picks up the ball off of the ground and throws to Eckstein at second, easily beating the runner from first. Eckstein has his foot on the bag at second, and throws to Rolen at third, the runner then runs into Rolan's tag. Rolan, seeing Blanco still at the plate, throws across the diamond to Pujols at first, who tags the bag, and thus they assumed the triple play.
In reality, Blanco was called out on batter's interference, after which the ball is dead. So for a change, Sweet Lou came out and argued that Blanco was out on batter's interference, thus putting the runners back at first and second.
Blanco popped up a bunt, not very high, and almost directly up. Blanco did not run, apparently thinking the ball would be foul. Molina reached one arm around each side of Blanco's head to try and catch the ball, he failed, and the ball dropped to the ground. The runners, who had held up, then took off. For some unexplained reason, Blanco still does not run. (It's possible he knew it was batter's interference.)
Molina picks up the ball off of the ground and throws to Eckstein at second, easily beating the runner from first. Eckstein has his foot on the bag at second, and throws to Rolen at third, the runner then runs into Rolan's tag. Rolan, seeing Blanco still at the plate, throws across the diamond to Pujols at first, who tags the bag, and thus they assumed the triple play.
In reality, Blanco was called out on batter's interference, after which the ball is dead. So for a change, Sweet Lou came out and argued that Blanco was out on batter's interference, thus putting the runners back at first and second.
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