I’ve been out for six weeks at a writer’s workshop, and I haven’t seen a whole game in that time (which was horrible for me). I came home today in time to catch the last three innings of the Tigers-Angels game, and saw… cheating! Awesome, awesome cheating!
In the 8th inning, with the game tied 3-3 and two on, Garret Anderson hit a long fly ball to the wall, and a fan reached out to snag it. They made a great catch, home run. Detroit manager Jim Leyland went out to scream at the umps over the call, they talked it over, and let the call stand.
I wrote a whole chunk of this in the book: when fans should reach out, and when they should let the ball drop, so this made me really happy: here, the ball drops and gets off the wall, it’s a likely double. A long one, which would score Vladimir Guerrero from second at least, and Gary Matthews Jr. might even score from first. But trying to keep the Angels from blowing the game wide open, 4-3 with men on is a lot better situation than being down 6-3
Now, the Angels kept scorching Tim Byrdak, and Detroit never scored again to lose 10-3. But it was great to come back from time off to immediately see a smart play like that.
bud | 29-Jul-07 at 8:04 am | Permalink
Welcome back.
Great to see except we need the Angels to lose many many games.