St. Louis Cardinals vs. Atlanta Braves - Recap - October 05, 2012 - ESPN

Replay won't help you here.
Protests won't help you here.
Rule changes won't help.
Fans acting the fool in the aftermath definitely won't help.
Better umpires might help.

Maybe a better pre-game for the guys on the lines, who are never there at any other point during the season.

The infield-fly rule is just fine, the administration of said rule clearly was not. I can see (and do many times during the season) players, coaches, fans err in understanding the basics of this somewhat tricky rule and some of its nuances.

But the best umpires in the world (and they'll tell you they are) better get it right. Especially in a game like this.  

You make your determination of catch-ability with ordinary effort when the ball is at the apex, not nearly on the ground after you've been deked by the SS waving his arms like a pterodactyl

The other umpires setting up the "blue wall" and defending the call is absurd. The call was kicked, admit it and move on. This would have been a bad call in a high school regional game.

Some of the notable LLWS umpiring fiascos have occurred because of predominantly home-plate umpires serving duty on the lines in the biggest games of the year.  So you have an outfield umpire making an infield umpires (judgment) call.


Didn't see the Yahoo fans acting like this when they went ahead 2-0 on the 'other' arguably bad administration of a batter time-out granted to Ross when Lohse had already started to deliver. Ross  later homered in the AB to send Atlanta to the early lead.

You live by the bad call, you die by the bad call, I guess. At any rate, they didn't give the runs back.

from ESPN.com:
St. Louis Cardinals vs. Atlanta Braves - Recap - October 05, 2012 - ESPN:

"The stadium got even louder when David Ross, starting at catcher in place of McCann, sent a two-run homer into the left-field seats in the second.

McCann struggled through an injury-plagued season, prompting Gonzalez to give Ross the nod. It looked like a brilliant move when the Braves struck for an early lead. Uggla walked with two out against 16-game winner Kyle Lohse, then Ross appeared to strike out to end the inning.

But the hitter yelled for time just before Lohse delivered the pitch, and umpire Jeff Kellogg hopped out from behind the plate waving his arms while Ross swung and missed.

That call worked out for the Braves."

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Sad to see Chipper Jones career end on the garbage-dump, blown call memory, but being the class act he is, took some of the blame for the loss after air-mailing a DP ball into RF to aid the Cardinals comeback.