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Were the Rays robbed of a go-ahead run in the 13th inning of their ALDS Game 3 loss vs. the Red Sox by umpire's judgment? A lot of people watching the atlanta braves jersey men l game wondered, but the rule book appeared to back the umps. 

Tampa Bay was poised to take the lead after KevinChristian Yelich Kiermaier drove a ball over right fielder Hunter Renfroe's head that hit the low Jorge Soler Marlins Jerseys wall in front of the Boston bullpen at Fenway Park on the fly. The ball hit the warning track, caromed back toward Renfroe, deflected off his body and then landed over the wall.

Yandy Diaz, who was running on the pitch, was heading toward home at that point, but umpires, after a review, placed Kiermaier at second base and Diaz at third on the book-rule double. The Rays failed to score in that inning, and Christian Vazquez hit a two-run home run in the b atlanta braves jersey youth xl ottom of the frame for a 6-4 Red Sox win and 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.

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At first glance, atlanta braves jersey acuna Rule 5.05(a)(8) seemed to clearly back the umpires' call:

"The batter becomes a runner when bounding fair ball is deflected by the fielder into the stands, or over or under a fence on fair or foul territory, in which case the batter and all runners shall be entitled to advance two bases;"

But in fact, a provision in the umpires' manual, citing Rule 5.06(b)(4)(H), was applied, umpire crew chief Sam Holbrook s atlanta braves jersey dansby swanson aid in a postgame press conference.

"It's Item 20 in the manual," he said, "which is, balls deflected out of play, which is in reference to Official Baseball Rule 5.06(b)(4)(H). It says, if a fair ball not in flight is deflecNoah Syndergaard Phillies Jerseys ted by a fielder and goes out of play, the award is two bases from the time of the pitch." 

Some viewers were under the impression that Diaz should have scored because he was past second and Kiermaier should have had a triple because he was past first. Holbrook said that umpires could have awarded Diaz and Kiermaier two bases from where they were on the basepaths if Renfroe had intentionally Cody Bellinger knocked the ball over the wall.

"If it was intentionally kicked ou atlanta braves austin riley jersey t, then it would have been from the time the intentional deflection happened, two bases from that time," Holbrook said.

That the ruling was correct was no consolation to Kiemaier.

"That's the ruling, the umpires explained it to me. So I can’t go against that. The rules are what they are. But man, that’s just, that’s a heartbreaker," he told reporters after the game.

Rays manager Kevin Cash accepted the ruling as well.

"That's just the rule. That’s the way it goes. It was very unfortunate for us," he told reporters.

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