Could Enrico Palozzo Have Made The Correct Call?

Oh, probably not, but thankfully the overturned call of Carlos Delgado's three-run home run in Sunday's Yankees/Mets game didn't wind up costing the visitors the game.


A very good performance from Oliver Perez led the way for the Mets bats to take over t he game, Perez scattered three hits over 7 and 2/3 innings while the Mets took a couple of innings to figure out Chien-Ming Wang, as well as battering reliver Ross Ohlendorf for their 11 runs to win the two games in the rain-shortened series.


At least home plate umpire (and crew chief) Bob Davidson had to admit that he EFFED UP overruling third base ump Mike Reilly's call of the ball that hit the fair side of the base of the left-field foul poll, right in front of a couple of Mets fans who were quick to point out where the ball hit. Derek Jeter was among the Yankees to argue that the ball was indeed foul, but the call did little to give the Yankees any momentum for the rest of the game. It was a little bit of justice a bit later to see all of the Yankee fans clamoring for a ball hit down the same line by a Yankee batter later in the game to be ruled fair, even though it was clearly foul; I think by this time the Yankee fans had opted for anything in which to hope that they would win this game against their cross-town rivals.


Almost immediately after the blown call, there was a loud exchange of voices audible as Davidson threw out Mets coach Jerry Manuel from the dugout for continuing to argue the call after the play had been reversed.


The call now makes two home runs taken from the Mets this year, the first came in Miami in the third game of the year as Carlos Beltran was given a ground-rule double when a ball was ruled to have hit the top of the fence rather than the metal railing behind which it actually hit.


At least we can kind of laugh about this and debate the merits of instant replay in baseball, I just hope that Delgado doesn't have too many performance incentives in his contract relating to home runs and RBI's.



MANUEL GETS TOSSED



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