Quite possibly.
The runner was out by a mile. And yet the umpire, apparently too tired to continue the 19-inning game, called him safe at home plate. That was the run needed for the Braves to win and the game ended.
How crappy of a call was this? Allahpundit notes sports commentators are wondering if the umpire just called it safe so he could go home and go to bed.
The umpire, Jerry Meals, needs to face retribution from the league. There’s no way in hell they can let this bad of a call, one that even a casual viewer would have gotten right, go by without reprimand of some sort.


by Stephan Tawney on July 27, 2011