This is what you get when you have a bunch of lawyers instead of baseball guys for owners who make the rules. Let's outlaw sliding because someone might get a skin abrasion and heaven knows we can't have that!!
Bad call.. it didn’t interfere with his ability to make a good throw or not, either way the throw was going to be in the dirt. That’s why it’s an embarrassing call. The whole slide rule is an embarrassment. Years & years of baseball and double plays, and one incident with Utley they change everything. In hockey, one guy gets hit in the head they don’t ban checking.. I don’t see the difference. Manfred is a terrible commissioner.
It’s a good call. His hole purpose of slideing there was to stop him from making the throw. That’s not fair. The rules just say you can’t go out of your way with the slide to interfere with the throw and that’s fair. He went out of his way and they made the right call and they were both out.
it doesn’t matter if it affected the throw. the runners CAN’T touch the base runners with their hands to try to interfere. Bautista had no reason to touch the fielder
I love how biased these guys are even tho he barely touched his footing to try and slow the slide and also later in an interview the second base player said he didn't feel it and the throw was a hard one. Also Edward beat the throw to clearly show which the MLB umpires did not even encount for. This has turned into a game where pussies play. Look at other sports. This is why baseball is losing so many fans. I love watching the sport but for this to happening is ruining the game that so many people love and are trying to hold on to.
