On
Saturday, Chase Utley of the Dodgers slid hard into second base trying to break
up a double play in the game against the Mets, so hard that he broke shortstop
Reuben Tejada’s leg. Utley was initially
called out, then safe on appeal even though the replay shows he never touched
the bag. And now he’s been suspended for
two games.
I
say there was no attempt by the baserunner to reach the base (and he started
his slide no more than two feet from second), only the intent to take out the
fielder; that means the umpire should have called an automatic double play,
taking the Dodgers out of an inning where they scored what proved to be the
winning runs. My daughter, Little Miss
Pop-up Slide, says the slide was clean, if hard. For someone who played second base all
through high school, she’s not showing Tejada much love. Thank God her grandfather never tried to put
a tag on her, or me, for that matter.
You just don’t get in the way of some people.
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