IGT--Nationals @ Mets, 05/27/09

[Guest themetfairy]

Gwreck wrote: You know, I went back and looked at the tape of the game: on Daniel Murphy's home run, Sheffield was tagged out at home plate. I don't think he ever touched the plate, and he didn't go back out to touch it after the replay call was made.

Fortunately, the time to appeal that play has long passed.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Gwreck wrote: You know, I went back and looked at the tape of the game: on Daniel Murphy's home run, Sheffield was tagged out at home plate. I don't think he ever touched the plate, and he didn't go back out to touch it after the replay call was made.

I was wondering the same thing as I saw Murphy belatedly cross the plate. I was thinking, should Sheffield come out of the dugout to tap the plate himself?

[Gwreck]

I'm pretty sure he should have.

I think there's a lot of merit to the argument that if Sheffield didn't touch home plate prior to Murphy, he's out and only Murphy's run counts.

[Centerfield]

Not to rain on anyone's parade here, but there needs to be some ass-reaming on the baserunning that inning.

First off, at Citifield, there is no such thing as a sure thing. So Daniel Murphy's got to bust it out of the box. Secondly, until the ump signals, all baserunners should be busting it as well. Third, if the baserunner is not busting it, Razor Shines has to have his head out of his ass and not send the go-ahead run to his death with no one out.

FMart has to run on pop-ups, and Castro has to not wander off base on a line drive in the infield.

[Centerfield]

Finally, between the disputed calls the last few nights and losing Reyes' game trying HR on that last homestand, can we give up on these idiotic fences and put an 8 foot wall all the way around?