Instant Replay for Home Runs

[zahavasdad]

Last Night (May 18, 2008) the Umps blew the Call on National TV, they overulled the 3rd Base umpire and took away a home run from Carlos Delgado in the Yankees - Mets Game.

ESPN showed the hit over and over again that the UMPS Clearly blew the call (Its not a subjective call)

Luckily the call didnt cost the Mets the game, but the idea is to get the call RIGHT.

Should baseball use instant replay for Home Runs like that, you would not to cost a team a game because the Ump Blew it!!

[Brian McKenna]

Why are home runs so special to warrant such unprecedented scrutiny?

[metfan13]

Why are home runs so special to warrant such unprecedented scrutiny?

Because they are guaranteed to involve runs being scored, or not.

[zahavasdad]

Because they are not subjective and they directly cause a score change unlike almost any other call

[ipitch]

In the NHL, all goals and near goals are reviewed in Toronto (no matter where the game takes place). I think their system works well. I'd like to see MLB do something similar for homeruns.

[cardsfanatic]

I'm always a fan of instant replay. To me it's not about making a quick call that's wrong. It's about taking the time to make the right call. Everyone that says IR would slow down games always cites that as a reason to not use it. I'm sorry... I can't see the value in making a quick judgment that's wrong. I don't know, maybe that's why stuff like fast food and ARM loans exist, the culture we live in wants results and they want them now. Unwilling to take the time to make sure it's right. Who knows. Personally, I'd rather take an extra minute or two and make sure it's the right call.

EDIT: Before anyone brings it up, I obviously wouldn't support instant replay for things like strikes and balls. It'd have to be a major play like a game-winning tag from 3rd if they thought the runner may have left early. Homeruns, definitely. Something like the Don Denkinger "safe" call at first. Things like that.

[Boston Boxer]

In the NHL, all goals and near goals are reviewed in Toronto (no matter where the game takes place). I think their system works well. I'd like to see MLB do something similar for homeruns.

i agree, no harm in using the system for HRs. It would not take that many replays to see if it is a HR or not. I am all for it. It is the one thing hockey has going for it above baseball.

[Old Sweater]

Rox get ripped on 4 HR calls last season. 2 of them cost us the game that forced the 1 game playoff with the Padres where there was another blown call on a HR.

Yankees get the benefit of a blown HR call.

I don't want instant replay. I want 3 more HR jelly rolls.

Instant replay is going to work out 50/50 for your team which is around the same as blown calls so no one is going to benefit from it in the long run.

[zahavasdad]

Yankees get the benefit of a blown HR call.

Not exactly, Imagine the Yankees would have won the game 5-4 and the Blown Call cost the Mets a Team.

The Yankees would never have lived it down.

Even the Yankee annoucers and the Ump (Davidson) said the call was blown. You never want to WIN a game based on a blown call. You need to win games on the Field, not based on the UMP

[ipitch]

Instant replay is going to work out 50/50 for your team which is around the same as blown calls so no one is going to benefit from it in the long run.

It could literally take hundreds of years for things to "even out" when a team gets screwed from a blown call at a critical time in the World Series.

[metfan13]

Why not a 5th ump upstairs to make the call. No review on the field. He could call down a decision faster than Davidson ran out to screw it up last night.

[Pere]

I obviously wouldn't support instant replay for things like strikes and balls. It'd have to be a major play like a game-winning tag from 3rd if they thought the runner may have left early. Homeruns, definitely. Something like the Don Denkinger "safe" call at first. Things like that.

So, bottom of the 9th, home team down by one, bases loaded, two outs, full count. You wouldn't consider a video replay for a ball or strike call?

[KCGHOST]

Something like fair or foul on HR's would be okay. Something like the NBA uses where you don't have replay officials and such and the use of the replay is for a very limited set of circumstances.

I still can't figure out why the 1st base umpire thought he got a better view than the 3B umpire.

[metfan13]

Something like fair or foul on HR's would be okay. Something like the NBA uses where you don't have replay officials and such and the use of the replay is for a very limited set of circumstances.

I still can't figure out why the 1st base umpire thought he got a better view than the 3B umpire.

On a play like that I don't see how anyone not looking directly down the line can even have an opinion.

[Imgran]

Fair-foul, HR or not, tag plays, and anyhthing controversial in the 9th inning.