No lbb, because interference makes the ball dead, and the runner out. As such, Jeter does not get the benefit of the extra bases, and stays at 2nd (which he would have had with the out play). Otherwise, we'd see this play all the time- guy on first, bunt it down the line then tackel the pitcher. Hey, the run still scores, right!? :) Damn, Arroyo. Good job, we can survive that run- now Francona, you better not send him out for the 9th! Go Sox! Pad that lead!
So where does knocking the ball out of the catcher's mitt in a play at the plate figure in all this? You can collide with a catcher and jar the ball loose, but you can't swat at the glove. You'll notice that players will drop a shoulder and try to pound it out of the catcher, but not one of them ever makes a grabbing motion at the glove. Yankee fans at the stadium can complain all they want, but when they see the replay at home tonight, they'll realize it was the right call. Unless, of course, they are blind. Throwing stuff on the field? That's about as bush league as what ARod did.
BoSoxFan: you are three outs too early for that... (says the man who screamed at people who celebrated with 40 seconds left in the NCAA national championship game in 2001...)
You can collide with a catcher and jar the ball loose, but you can't swat at the glove. Which is what I meant. A-rod's chop was straight out of Madden 2K5.
Me: He's out because that's not part of his normal running motion. Wife: It would be if he (air quotes) ran like a girl (/air quotes). You know, with the pinwheeling arms?
Mrs. Grum cracks me up.
That's great - next year you're going to see players running like that to establish precedent
A-Rod is not a real man.
It was interference lbb, so Jeter can't advance (as in you can't throw him out trying to score after the ball has been slappped from your hand). Fair, I guess. Knocking the ball from the catcher is different as he is right there and the only thing you are really doing is running into him. If A-Rod ran into him and knocked the ball loose it's kosher. The reachingg out and swatting the glove arm, not so much. Well, the arm was in the base path -- you could see that, because Rodriguez had to double back to get to the bag. And as for the catcher thing, by knocking the catcher over, you could be stopping him from making a second play elsewhere (it's been known to happen).
This pretty much puts a nail in the "Varitek should have taken his mask off before feeding ARod a catcher's mitt sandwich" coffin.
Mrs. Grum is funny, and original.
BoSoxFan: you are three outs too early for that... Actually I am taking it one out at at time. A Rod being called for interference is something that does not happen to the Red Sox in this type of game in my and my father's lifetime. I was thanking the Gods for breaking the string. They still might lose, but they won't be cheated out of it.
Oh, what now??? Cops with riot gear???
Bring in the riot squad!
Is it interference if a New York riot cop swats at the ball?
I wonder how goddam's doing. She's at the game.
Riot gear! Somewhere, Randy Levine is wishing he never made such a fucking stink about it being unsafe at Fenway last year during Game 3.
"A baseball game under martial law." - my brother At this point, no matter what happens, I'm just laughing.
This has now reached the stage of farce.
Remember when this game looked like it was going to be finished before midnight? Those were good times....
To all those fuckholes who always bang on about English soccer fans... HAHA! Yeah, look at your own damn sports. Cops in riot gear?
Heh, it's like ten minutes to go in the Premier League. Except with the possibility for 'off the baton' ground rule doubles.
look at your own damn sports. Cops in riot gear? This is different. This is Yankees vs Red Sox.
Only in NY Drood...I guarantee you won't see that nonsense in St. Louis or Houston. Unless of course people start lobbing urine bombs...
Does this change the rules? What if a ball hits a cop? If a cop touches the ball, is it interference? If ARod swats again, do the riot police get to hit him with nightsticks? So many questions.
Tanyon - strike zone is down a little bit, sweetie.
What tieguy said. This is a complete farce. And to make it even worse, look at the riot cops. They're not paying the least attention to the proto-riot, wherever that is -- they're all craning to see past each other to watch the pitch.
Well, what do you expect? They've got good seats.
A-Rod pounded with nightsticks... OH YES! I'd PAY to see that!
I hope all those cops are Mets fans.
Drood: U.S. sports aren't without their embarrassments, but for the most part we confine our violence and rioting to post-game celebrations. Is there a single U.S. pro sports franchise that has attracted its own hooligan club?
Jesus, for once, go in order in the 9th. Just go down.
Interesting side note on intereference rule: If the ump deemed a double play was possible, both runners could have been called out. Wouldn't that have been fun. Jeter was on first, not second bern. Perhaps you were thinking back to Cairo being on second when jeter knocked him in on his hit
Moment of truth. Let's just make sure neither Bucky Dent nor Aaron Boone are in the Stadium.
So they brought the cops out in the top of the ninth to protect the home team, and took them off the field once the visiting team took the field? Makes sense.
This is funny really. I come from sports where I'm used to the officials fucking up and making the WRONG calls. Kinda cool to watch a sport where they make the right ones.
RCade: Not saying soccer doesn't have it's problems. It's just usually US sports are portrayed by the media over here (I'm in Canada) as being pure as the driven snow when it comes to that sort of thing.
walk, good idea. Hard to watch this.
Buck: A lead off walk. McCarver: As bad as a home run. He's such a fucking knob.
2 away!!
Oh god, Sierra. Loud out or whiff.
Speaking of "whiff", did Leiter say it tonight? Patrick admonished him in an interview today for not saying it yet.
Why is Foulke trying to get Sierra out away? He should bust him inside.
Finally, a swing from Sierra.
oh god don't walk again. gulp
Man alive, is this exciting!
Wow.
Wow.
Just realized another thing. Why were the series set up to give the AL the extra day of rest after a game 7? More of the NLCS getting screwed.
jinx.
jinx!
HUZZAH!!!
WOW, what a thriller
What a relief... I thought Foulke was going to give me a heart attack.
Lordy. What a pitch. And we get to bed before 1 AM, too. Still a ridiculous pathetic waste of a game, but at least we get some sleep. See y'all tomorrow night.
woo. game 7. drama.
*faints*
double-jinx!
I can't believe the Red Sox blew it, when they were just one strike aw- what?! Oh my god.
Unbelievable. Another Game 7. The baseball gods really want to make Boston suffer.
I have aged at least a decade in the last 3 nights.
pivo: I would guess that it either alternates every other year, or maybe it's based on the winner of the All-Star game too? Just a guess though...
Seeya tomorrow!
Wow. Congrats Boston fans.
Why were the series set up to give the AL the extra day of rest after a game 7? More of the NLCS getting screwed. With respect, I think the AL champions will need an extra week of rest to get over this series.
just wondering, with like circa 600 real-time comments surrounding these red sox and yankees games whatever happened to the idea of using flickr for this game chat purpose?
Unbelievable. Another Game 7. The baseball gods really want to make Boston suffer. We know. Thoe were my first words to my fiance (I feel obligated since she clearly has Stockholm Syndrome thanks to me). I just want to point out I am a mute of necessity, not malice: I haven't looked at any of the game threads since the Sox started winning. Not that anyone's missing me, just sayin'. Attention college economics majors throughout the Northeast: a decent term paper could be made out of studying economic productivity in Northeastern United States during this October. Also, what kind of riot were those cops prepped for? Some sort of all-you-can-eat todo at Sizzler, I guess. And why are their helmets from the DOT? I'd like to personally thank Curt Schilling, Trot Nixon, et al for turning great playoff moments in Sox-Yanks history into uncomfortable moments by personally thanking Jesus. How the hell did we get *two* calls reversed against the Yanks in The Stadium? Somewhere Jose Offerman just kicked his dog. Sox fan on local Fox news affiliate: "Oh, it was ay-mah-zin! My hot stopt!"
I thought it was a pretty unobtrusive display of belief. Plus this was awesome: "We just did something that's never been done before. There's no reason we can't do it again tomorrow."
Oops, I'm watching the press conference now, yer right fatma.
I didn't mind Schilling's comment to Fox so much (didn't hear Nixon's), it seemed heartfelt. However, I did notice that, after Orlando Cabrera singled in the 4th, when he got to first base, he crossed himself and pointed to the sky. Just out of curiosity, with the earth's orientation and point in its rotation at that time of the day, how did he know that he was pointing to heaven instead of, y'know, the other place? Seems like you'd need an astrolabe to get that one right.
That was blood on his sock. They stitched his tendon to something else, so it wouldn't move. Someone said it before. Curt Schilling is a real man.
This was what the idiots at FOX kept calling the "high top" shoe... 
Eh, don't get me wrong: I've been known to beg the Heavenly Host in moments like this, but it just gives me the hives when he answers every question with how he became a Christian 7 years ago. Maybe next job interview I'll relate everything to when I ate a sandwich in 1988. All the same I just dug up my SoSH password just to say thanks.
I'm sure SoSH is a riot right now. Any goodies? [Friend called the riot incident 'baseballs of mass destruction'.]
Is it just me, or does A-Rod always look like he's wearing lipstick?
The two greatest words in sports: Game Seven
