I have less of an issue with banning the collisions at home plate than the old take out slides at second. Even under the old rules you couldn’t barrel over people at any other base (although admittedly some of the cross body blocks Hal McRae threw were probably beyond even what were the limits). Never understood why the plate was different.
Pearce was supposed to be but with JBJ still sick, Benintendi hurt and Nunez apparently ill, Cora doesn’t have a ton of options. Do you use Swihart in left and have Vazquez catch a 4th game in a row? The down side of a 13 man pitching staff
Think back to the 04 ALCS when ARod slapped the ball out of Arroyo’s glove. They didn’t send Jeter back to 2nd, where he would have been, they sent him all the way back to 1st where he started.
The ruling is interference and no runners can advance in the case of interference.
Moot point since they ruled it okay (though I’m not convinced it was).
The first one was a tremendous play. The second was a tremendous play set up by lack of hustle out of the box and again rounding second. The third was the result of not learning and a dumb play anyway. Pearce was thrown out lugging a piano. This one was bad baserunning.
He’s getting cold and wants this over. Vazquez should be all over him come next inning on anything close that’s called a ball; he won’t do it but he should.