Originally Posted by
LT Profits
Disagree 100%, there is no difference between taking out middle infielder and taking out catcher (while staying in baseline of course), goal of breaking up DP same in both cases. In the old days, there would not have even been an uproar over this, everyone knew it was good, hard baseball.
And on a side note that has nothing to do with the rule interpretation, it is common knowledge that Rizzo is one of the nicest guys in baseball and very well liked by opposing players (at least before yesterday LOL), there was no malicious intent here.