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The issue I have with last night wasn't so much with whether the ball hit the dirt or not. It was how the umpire called it. He clearly rang up the batter. Calling him out. The batter even thinks so as he is heading back to the dugout. Baseball is one of the few sports where the umpire, at times, will make calls by not saying a word. In this case he should have made it clear that the ball was in the dirt so that everyone who needed to react, catcher and batter, would have a chance to do so.
The only way I would go for instant replay in Baseball was if it only involved plays in the field. No balls and strikes bullshit! And if the manager had a limited number of challenges per game. Say two maybe even only one. Adding 5 minutes to a game time for this wouldn't change the flow of probably 80% of the games played. But for those few times that they didn't get it right it would be made so.
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