
Effectively Wild Episode 1870: Please Don’t Put in the Newspaper That Manfred Got Mad
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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I Hereby Appeal Sinsky's Advancing to Home Without Tagging the Base
The ruling seems to have been that adrion's act of tagging park unmistakably indicated an appeal on park. But his subsequent stepping on third base did not, similarly, indicate an appeal on sinski. If he had justlik, extended his arm and gestured at the umpire, would that have constituted an appeal? He could have called out in a firm and manly voice, gentlemen, i pray thee remain at your stations while i discourse with these most excellent umpires... but he didn't. This is outright managerial malpractice.
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