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| Intanto dall'altra parte utilizzano anche l'instant replay, in aperto contrasto con l'IBL che vorrebbe partite il più brevi possibili, i "lungagnoni" in grigio della MLB hanno addirittura aspettato 8 minuti prima di prendere una decisione. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/158772-...kees-past-tribePosada, Instant Replay Lift Yankees Past TribeIn a pinch hit at-bat in the seventh inning of Sunday’s game, Jorge Posada crushed a two-run homerun into the short porch in right field of the new Yankee Stadium to push the New York Yankees in front of the Cleveland Indians to lead the Yankees' to a 7-3 win.
A couple of fans sitting behind the wall got involved with the play, reaching over the gate to snatch the ball.
Instant replay was used to determine whether or not the ball would have been a homer if the fans did not interfere.
The umpires convened, and after eight and a half minutes, ruled Posada’s hit a homerun. They concluded that the ball would have hit the fan’s chest, and Cleveland right fielder Trevor Crowe would not have caught the ball.
“I saw the ball hit right behind the fence, and it was worth waiting the eight and a half minutes,” Yankee skipper Joe Girardi said after the game to the YES Network.
“I looked at it and looked at it, and I knew it would not be overturned. The umpire told me the ball hit the fan behind the fence.”
“I wasn’t sure when I hit it if it was going to go out or not,” Posada said. “The wind was very strange today, and the ball just went high. I just had to keep running.”
The Yanks had been down 3-2 before Posada’s two-run blast, getting their previous RBI from Mark Teixeira and Hideki Matsui....
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