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2017 NLDS Game 5 Live Blog
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Jeff Sullivan
7:41
The part about contact with the catcher appears to be unambiguous
7:42
So here's to the postgame pressers
Tom
7:42
I think you may be confusing backswing with follow through.  Think about a golf swing.
Jeff Sullivan
7:42
"If a batter strikes at a ball and misses and swings so hard he
carries the bat all the way around and, in the umpire’s judg-
ment, unintentionally hits the catcher or the ball in back of him on the backswing"
emphasis on "all the way around"
hscer
7:43
Jeff Sullivan
7:44
Holy good god damn Jayson Werth
Routine sliding catch turns into a run. 8-4 Cubs
This is unfathomable
7:45
Just stop playing
Evan
7:45
I remember seeing a runner sent back on a SB because of backswing contact. Hard to believe that the umps don't know the rules. MLB umpires know the rules really well.
Davy
7:45
It's weird that the broadcast hasn't mentioned it at all, though.
Jeff Sullivan
7:45
And incidentally, the inning stayed alive because Ben Zobrist drew a full-count walk on a strike in the zone
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe
7:45
More terrible Nats stuff.
Lachlan
7:45
The nats are cursed
Paco Picopiedra
7:45
Wow. Just...wow.
Cardi Gee
7:45
Is this even real life at this point?
Chris S
7:45
Strikezones are for losers, just pitch wherever you like it's all random anyway
Carlos
7:46
What if in the umpire's judgment he intentionally hits the catcher?
Jeff Sullivan
7:46
duel
Daniel
7:46
Falling apart
Adam
7:46
Does not look like he "lost it in the lights"
Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe
7:46
Kintzler getting squeezed.
Jeff Sullivan
7:46
Wieters'd
STL
7:46
"what else can go wrong tonight for the Nationals"

*Heyward smacks a gapper
Aaron
7:46
Zobrist walked on strike 3 as well. Everything that can go wrong is
Tyler B
7:47
The broadcast didn't even pick up that they were arguing about the backswing until about 5 times viewing the replay.
libre
7:47
Is the broadcast bad or is it just me?
Jeff Sullivan
7:47
It is 75% of the users in this internet chat room
Show Hey O'Tawny
7:47
Speaking as a hockey official it’s really reallt hard to remember all the rules and enforce them all
libre
7:48
Who catches a break first: Dusty Baker or the city of Washington?
Jeff Sullivan
7:48
Baker seems to live a pretty happy life
While I was typing that Heyward made another inning-ending out
8-4 Cubs, Nationals win expectancy standing at 0%
Charlie
7:48
Death, taxes, Nats losing in the NLDS, and Heyward making outs
STL
7:49
Disagree with the statement it didnt look like he lost it in the lights.  I thought it looked exactly like he lost it in the lights in slow motion.  He just didnt do the weak, pretend my eyes hurt excuse afterwards like most people do.  He just wore it.
Show Hey O'Tawny
7:49
Lost in this is that Heyward has been horribad at the plate tonight
Jeff Sullivan
7:49
That has assuredly not been lost in this
Matt
7:50
What's the most devastating team implosion you've ever witnessed?
Jeff Sullivan
7:51
I'll never believe how the 2011 Rangers lost Game 6
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