In the first instance of Major League Baseball’s use of instant replay to determine home runs, in a game between the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees tonight, this much was proved:
Nothing, except that the new system doesn’t work any better than on-the-field, instant human judgment.
One camera angle showed the ball foul, the other angle fair, so the ruling on the field of a home run by Alex Rodriguez was upheld.
Elapsed time: 2 minutes, 15 seconds. (Three minutes, 15 seconds if you include the one minute it took to decide to review the play. Actually, four minutes 5 seconds if you include the 50 seconds of replays on TV after the call before play resumed.)
Time it would’ve taken for Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon to argue the call and get tossed: Probably about a minute or so.
Loser: baseball and its fans.
Another example of progress (haha) in the name of knee-jerk reactionism.
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