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Despite a rash of injuries hobbling the team, the Mets have found a new ally in their march onto the top of the NL East standings: instant replay. The team have gotten a boost from the umpires going to the videotape in four of the last five games and are 5-for-5 overall in replay rulings this season.
Last night's disputed call provided the most intrigue after Daniel Murphy's shot to right in the sixth first appeared to be a home run, but then landed on the warning track of the "Mo Zone" (right near the Pepsi Porch.) The trajectory of the ball and whether or not it hit a Subway sign in right was so confusing that Nationals manager Manny Acta was still complaining about it after the game, leading to an additional confirmation that the right call was made this afternoon by the VP of umpires.
Newsday's Wallace Matthews thinks that the Mets have tried a little too hard on all of the gimmicks in Citi FIeld calling the area in question "one of the many silly contrivances the Mets built into their new ballpark was going to intrude on the game" and the stadium as a whole "a monstrosity." Not complaining is Subway after watching their logo be zoomed in and out of in video close-ups for five minutes while the call was being decided last night.
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Saturday's review was truly a "monstrosity": The ball hit the top of Fenway's Green Monster.
Wednesday's review had nothing to do with the design of the stadium, but they should require darker colored signs. Sheffield's reviewed homer on Monday did hit a weird spot, but so what? Had the umps simply been paying attention, they would have seen the balls CLEARLY changed trajectory in ways they would only had they hit something. That's one of the charms of baseball...ball fields come in all shapes and sizes, whereas the field of play in every other sport is identical.
ground rules at fenway, man. there is a shelf above the monster, under which is painted a red line. if the ball is over the red line (ie, hits the shelf), it's a home run. the replay clearly showed that was the case. they got that call perfectly right.
the subway sign call at citfield, on the other hand, i'm not sold. more and more, i dislike citifield's right field shennanigans. it's just silly out there. from the replay footage i've seen, i'm 90% sure that ball dropped straight down on to the warning track. and i'm a mets fan. but maybe the umps had access to footage i didn't see on SNY. who knows. whatever. it's a WIN!
new yankee stadium - #1 in HR so for this season.
citifield - #27
Does anyone pay attention to "Newsday" anymore? What an insignificant, poorly written newspaper. Wallace Matthews sounds like a real bitter person, as Citi Field is absolutely stunning (full disclosure: I'm not even a Mets fan)
Wallace Matthews is, simply, a joke. No matter what sport he happens to write about he consistently is only looking to create controversy and attract attention to himself. Put it this way: there's a reason he writes for Newsday, the paper that even with the scandal about falsely inflated circulation figures still could never come close to being competitive.
I a pissed off at the Subway by my office because they discontinued the $5 foot long tuna. The other sandwiches are simply heinous. Baseball games take forever-let's add 10 minute reviews to the mix! Yawn
I rarely find myself agreeing with Wallace Matthews, but he's right about the gimmicky design of New Shea.
Don't care, Mets won.