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BP: The umpires' World Series role

By Eric Seidman
Baseball Prospectus

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

In a postseason featuring late-inning heroics and a few coming-out parties for talented players like Carlos Gonzalez, the actual game play has taken a backseat to shoddy umpiring. Instead of fans marveling at the dominant pitching performances from CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee, they have been left wondering such things as how a play in which two runners were tagged while not standing on the base could result in only one out. Aside from your typical run-of-the-mill mistakes, the umpiring crews have ...

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