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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

On the Ross hit

Neither Pete Mackanin nor Bronson Arroyo had any problem with the Mike Cameron-David Ross collision.

“I looked like to me on replay that (Ross) stood right in front of the base path,” Mackanin said. “Base-runner has no other choice. I thought it was a clean. . . You can choose to go around a guy or slide, but when a guy’s blocking the plate, you're taught to knock him over.”

Arroyo saw it the same way: “(Ross) was way up the line. He was in a place he shouldn't have been.”


6 Comments:

at 6:55 PM Blogger Patrick said...

How ridiculous is it that they dont even think it was the slightest bit dirty and say Ross is to blame. Very pathetic of this team.

 
at 7:05 PM Anonymous Anonymous said...

The catching position is often a contact position, so contact happens. To say that any player that decided to run over the catcher is dirty, or to run over the catcher is a dirty play is ridiculous. Running over the catcher is part of the game, period.

I guess you think that pitchers beaning players is a dirty play also, guess you are one of those new school baseball fans that have turned this game into a wussy game...

 
at 7:36 PM Blogger Unknown said...

Catcher rule #1....

NEVER BLOCK THE PLATE WITHOUT THE BASEBALL!

 
at 9:09 PM Blogger OhioJim said...

"Catcher rule #1....

NEVER BLOCK THE PLATE WITHOUT THE BASEBALL!"


Unless you knock the other guy down going for the ball. That was Ross's mistake. He opened himself up to reach for the ball without lowering the boom on Cameron as he went after the ball.

 
at 7:35 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have no problem with Ross getting hit. That is part of baseball. But it looked to me that Cameron got his elbow up into Ross's head. In any case, if the manager and the pitcher go on record as saying they have no problem with the hit, who are we to question it? In any case, I wish Ross a speedy recovery. He's having a down year, but he's a good guy, and we need him on this team, not Sonny Jorgensen.

 
at 8:33 AM Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm old school, but Cameron went out of his way to hit Ross before ross had the ball. Cameron had the entire play in front of him and could have easily just slid or ran across the plate but at the very end, he takes a left turn and leads with his shoulder in an obviously dirty play. That would be a fine in the NFL. I'm no homer I just calls it as I sees it.

 
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