Well, sports fans ...

The Boston Red Sox have done something no other team has done: they've come back from a three game deficit to tie the series and force a game seven.

I guess you all finally downloaded the Mahow Mahow video.

Now, there may be some concern over the interference call against Alex Rodriguez in the 8th inning:

Then in the eighth, after Miguel Cairo's double and Derek Jeter's RBI single off Bronson Arroyo pulled the Yankees to 4-2, Alex Rodriguez hit a ball between the mound and first. Arroyo picked it up and ran toward first, where just before the base the striding A-Rod slapped the ball away.

Jeter came all the way around to score as the ball bounced down the right-field line. After Boston manager Terry Francona came out to argue, the umpires huddled, discussed the play, then called Rodriguez out for interference and sent Jeter back to first.

Rodriguez raised both hands and put them on his helmet, screaming about the reversal and the game was held up for 10 minutes while fans tossed debris on the field and Yankees manager Joe Torre argued.

That puts to lie my friend's favorite line about Yankees fans and class, and Boston's lack thereof. It took the presence of police officers in riot gear to calm the crowd.

But back to the call. Another friend of mine wanted to see where in the rulebook this was considered interference, and it's probably because most players are classier than NY's A-Rod that we haven't seen this enough to recognize it. But here's the rule:

INTERFERENCE (a) Offensive interference is an act by the team at bat which interferes with, obstructs, impedes, hinders or confuses any fielder attempting to make a play. If the umpire declares the batter, batter runner, or a runner out for interference, all other runners shall return to the last base that was in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference, unless otherwise provided by these rules. In the event the batter runner has not reached first base, all runners shall return to the base last occupied at the time of the pitch.

Case closed, and on to game 7.

Just one more thing to love about America.

posted by Dennis on 10.20.04 at 01:20 AM





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