Jeter's Oscar-winning performance and instant replay

[tequila!]

Okay, so Jeter gets hit by a pitch, and walks around nursing his hand for a while as he waves the trainers out. Only the Rays manager and their whole dugout heard it hit the bat, and think the ball hit the bat. The umpires conversed, and awarded Jeter first base. In the locker room afterward, Jeter admits that the ball hit the bat and not his hand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/derek-jeter-hit-by-pitch_n_719269.html

ESPN has been calling for instant replay in baseball all over the place; this is nothing new. What would have happened on that play if there WAS instant replay? What SHOULD have happened is after the umpire looks at the instant replay is him calling Jeter out for faking injury and saying "This isn't fucking soccer."

But let's take out the acting element. How would instant replay rule in that situation if the ball landed fair, but the ump already called time because he thought the ball hit Jeter? (It hit his thigh next and should be foul, but let's ignore that fact for the sake of debate)

 

[Backstep]

Well, with the antics Jeter engaged in, he'd be declared out and maybe bounced from the game. If the ump had just called it wrong without Jeter's oscar-nominated performance and then replay had shown it hit the bat? I'm guessing it'd be called a foul ball since the ball was immediately declared dead and play would continue.

I guess someone forgot to let him know you aren't supposed to fake an injury unless you play soccer.

 

[the tickleshow]

If the ball had hit his bat and landed fair, the umpires would have to call it a dead ball because they called time, unfortunately. If they had not called time, the Rays could have simply tagged Jeter out while he was dancing around "injured" or just thrown to first for the out.

 

[tequila!]

Well, with the antics Jeter engaged in, he'd be declared out and maybe bounced from the game. If the ump had just called it wrong without Jeter's oscar-nominated performance and then replay had shown it hit the bat? I'm guessing it'd be called a foul ball since the ball was immediately declared dead and play would continue.

I guess someone forgot to let him know you aren't supposed to fake an injury unless you play soccer.

Well is it really any worse than trying to slide your spikes into the infielder to break up a double play? Or a catcher framing the ball every other pitch?

Also, calling it a foul ball and adding on a strike is kind of penalizing the batter for having put a ball into fair territory, which isn't fair to the batter in the least bit.

 

[Backstep]

I think it's a little different, yeah. Framing a pitch or trapping a ball is in a different category than faking an injury, IMHO. Maybe that just comes from my NFL fandom, but I know that if an NFL player faked an injury, I'd lose respect for him.

As for the statement about a foul ball vs. fair, you might be right, I have no idea. Even if baseball insitituted an expanded instant replay system, they may not want to allow a review of pitches at the plate since there are so many close calls there.

 

[CommBoy]

I despise the Yanks, and Jeter but you do what you have to do to win the game.

You need to take out a guy at second to help your team win, it's nothing personal to the shortstop but you have to do what you have to do. You need to act like you got hit to get on base to help your team, then you do what you have to do to get there.

It happens pretty frequently so its not like it was just Jeter. Plus some pitcher will look at this and make sure he gets nailed for real to give him the lesson that if he wants first he as to earn it. It will all be balanced out in the end.