After a washout the night before Dustin Pedroia Bobblehead night became part of a doubleheader. With the rescheduled game still in question most of the day the weather held and the stands filled slowly. It was a quiet start with the RedSox's Dustin Pedroia scoring 1 run in the first. After a no score second inning the Tampa Bay Rays scored a run each in the 3rd and 4th innings bring the score to 2-1 at the end of the fourth.
The excitement came when Dustin Pedroia slid into home and was called out to the roar of disapproval from the crowd. The challenged play started with David Ortiz lofting a double high off the Green Monster. Pedroia raced from first in an attempt to tie up the game. As he slid into home plate first-base upire Toby Basner called him out. A frustrated Pedroia popped up immediately and showed his frustration.
Third-base coach Brian Butterfield threw down his helmet in disgust and was promptly ejected from the game. As he stormed off the field Sox Manager John Ferrell challenged the call and after a delay for the umpires to review the call and the whole stadium watching it replayed on the jumbo-tron the call stood. The roar from the stand’s all booing the call was deafening.
The game went on but the Sox couldn’t pull off another run. It ended with a disappointing 2-1 loss. The only upside was that on Dustin Pedroia Bobble head night Dustin pulled his weigh and scored the only run and almost a second.
The burning question at the end of the 2-1 loss to the Rays was did Dustin Pedrioa’s left foot tough home plate? If you listened to the crowd during the replay you would have said it most certainly did. Sadly for the Sox the umpire’s didn’t agree and the call was upheld.
No comments:
Post a Comment