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Postseason brings umpires front and center
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BY MIKE FITZPATRICK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Most umpires would rather remain anonymous. This October, they've been the center of attention.
The latest example came in Game 2 of the World Series with Jermaine Dye at the plate.
Night after night, postseason games are turning on questionable calls in key situations, and it seems almost every one has gone Chicago's way.
Foul ball or hit by pitch? Again, the umps got it wrong. Again, the ruling went in favor of the White Sox.
“These couple of calls have overshadowed the way we're playing.” Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen said Monday at Minute Maid Park. “Take a look at the way we play, take a look at the way we pitch, take a look at the way we come back. ... I've said before, I'd rather be lucky than good, and I think we've been more lucky than good."
If the White Sox feel lighted,
the umpires feel slandered.
With slow-motion instant replay and super-camera angles, fans watching at home can clearly see when the umps make even a minor mistake — and especially a maior one.
That leads to unwanted attention for a distinguished group of arbiters. And it leads to plenty of criticism, too.
"They're getting blistered for things that happen every day," said Jerry Crawford, the crew chief for this year's AL championship series, which was filled with disputed calls. "My beef is you guys are supposed to report on what happens. You're not supposed to dwell on what happens."
Umpires are graded throughout the regular season, then selected for postseason assignments. Crawford, a major leagueump since 1976, said he and hiscolleagues are doing the best they can.
"Do we make mistakes? Absolutely," he said. "It's the weird things that have happened that have put a damper on this. The balls and strikes, there haven't been many beefs, and that's probably the most important part."
marked the entire postseason a year after umpires were praised for hudding to get key calls correct in October, even if it meant overturning the original ruling.
The ruckus began in Game 2 of this year's ALCS, when plate umpire Doug Eddings called strike three on Chicago's A.J. Pierzynski — but not the third out — in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Eddings ruled that Angels catcher Josh Paul didn't glove Kelvim Escobar's low pitch before it hit the ground. Pierzynski alertly husted to first — just in case — even as the Angels were walking off the field, thinking the inning was over.
Moments later, Joe Crede's game-winning double evened the series.
The confusing call sure seemed to take all the starch out of the Angels, who lost the next three at home and were eliminated.
Chicago hasn't lost since.
Later, Eddings said he should have been more emphatic in making the "no-catch" call.
Pierzynski got another break
in Game 4 when plate umpire Ron Kulpa did not call him for catcher's interference after his mitt tipped Steve Finley's bat.
The NLCS had its share, too. Plate umpire Phil Cuzzi ejected Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and star center fielder Jim Edmonds for arguing balls and strikes in Game 4.
In Game 6, Astros shortstop Adam Everett missed an important tag at second base, but umpire Greg Gibson called Yadier Molina out.
"Are there things in hindsight that could have been done otherwise? I think the umpires in fairness would be the first to admit that," said Mike Port, hired by the commissioner's office as vice president of umpiring on Aug. 1.
Dye was up Sunday night with two on, two outs and a 3-2 count. He was awarded first base by plate umpire Jeff Nelson, though replays showed Dan Wheeler's seventh-inning pitch actually hit Dye's bat, not his hand or forearm — and the slugger later admitted as much. The White Sox beat Houston 7-6 for a 2-0 Series lead.
Jeff Roberson/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago White Sox's Jermaine Dye leans away from an inside pitch from Houston Astros' pitcher Dan Wheeler during the seventh inning Game 2 of the World Series on Sunday in Chicago. Home plate umpire Jeff Nelson ruled that Dye was hit by pitch to load the bases.
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