if you leave the field.. you are buy rule "out"

[Ratzz]

it's called "abandoning the base"

i don't understand that call

[secret007]

not a lot of people would think tejada would be do dumb as not to touch the bag..

[Jowframs]

it's called "abandoning the base"

i don't understand that call

Not in this league

[oChRoNiCo]

I think Tejada wasn't thinking too much with his leg broken.... As for Utley being safe I believe it had to do with the umpire calling him out and this would be the reason he abandoned the base. Still the fact remains he never touched the base to begin with, but its over and done with now and Dodgers went and put 3 more on the board for good measure.

[Yazworm91]

Looks to be they made the correct call. Call it dirty I think it was a good play on Utley's part. This is the playoffs Tejada is a DA if he doesn't think Utley isn't going to come in hard on that play.

[A4K]

Dirty late slide and Utley couldn't touch the bag. Hope Harvey drills that \*\*\*\*\*\* Utley in the head.

[Ratzz]

i understand.. but there is a rule that states.. "if a player abandons the bag (for what period of time, or for what distance i don't know) the runner is OUT..

Utley totally left the field, NEVER made attempt to touch the bag AT ALL.
His ONLY intention was to take Tejada out.

if he's out... and the next batter is out, it's 2-2
i expect MLB to conveniently issue a "error" on the play tomorrow or Monday
when it is too late

[A4K]

Hope the Mets win the next 2. Utley is a garbage. He didnt even start his slide until after the bag.

[Ratzz]

Hope the Mets win the next 2. Utley is a garbage. He didnt even start his slide until after the bag.

they have to fix that rule, can't believe that MLB thinks that negating a double-play is of greater value than a player's health.

the Pirates lost a real playmaker to that.. and now Tejada.. it impacts entire seasons.
For teams. Need to fix that. Dirty play, but they are paid to do that.
It is MUCH more MLB's fault than it is Utley's.

Utley is a cog in a machine that permits and condones it.

[JameisBrady]

Looks to be they made the correct call. Call it dirty I think it was a good play on Utley's part. This is the playoffs Tejada is a DA if he doesn't think Utley isn't going to come in hard on that play.

nah they didn't. that was an illegal slide and utley should've been out and the DP should've also been turned as a result of interference.

[Ratzz]

OUT: made ZERO attempt to touch 2nd Base.

that's a Out. Plain and simple.

if you break a guy's leg, and you never even touched the bag at all.
Then your entire motive must have been to "hopefully' cause injury.

all of that BAD baseball.. and MLB in New York rewards him with an extra base.
which leads to the win.

kinda feels like MLB wanted the Dodgers to win that game.
There is no other possible interpretation.

I dislike events that appear to be rigged. Turns the fans off.

[Bostongambler]

I think it's cuz the ump called him out. Thats why he left the field. If the ump never made a safe or out call due to neither touching the base and then he left the field I would agree. But he called him out do the player must leave.

[innovation]

It is strange

[Bostongambler]

It is strange

Truth is stranger than fiction.

[Ratzz]

still. Outlay made zero attempt to really touch the bag.
Thus, that was never his intention, he just automatically assumed he was out, which he should have been.

if Utley make no attempt to touch the bag, how can he be safe?

[Ratzz]

i understand.. but there is a rule that states.. "if a player abandons the bag (for what period of time, or for what distance i don't know) the runner is OUT..

Utley totally left the field, NEVER made attempt to touch the bag AT ALL.
His ONLY intention was to take Tejada out.

if he's out... and the next batter is out, it's 2-2
i expect MLB to conveniently issue a "error" on the play tomorrow or Monday
when it is too late

i knew this would happen. MLB just did not want the Dodgers to go down 2-0 to the Mets.
So when it got hot, they gave the base to Utley. Now that the series is tied up.. it's okay to admit
the error.

How can Utley be safe, if the play was SO BAD, it warranted a 2 game suspension!?

unreal.

MLB is as close to rigged as it can be.

[Andy117]

I think it's cuz the ump called him out. Thats why he left the field. If the ump never made a safe or out call due to neither touching the base and then he left the field I would agree. But he called him out do the player must leave.

He didn't try to touch the base in the first place, of course he knew he was out. Why would he think he was safe?

[Andy117]

not a lot of people would think tejada would be do dumb as not to touch the bag..

Broken legs tend mess with your thought process.

[Ratzz]

He didn't try to touch the base in the first place, of course he knew he was out. Why would he think he was safe?

it was late, it was illegal.

Joe Torre said he suspended him for targeting the player and not the base.

why are people defending such an clear infraction!?

[SoulCall]

How much did the rule cost though?