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| 1st September, 2008 - 10:26 am | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - CC Sabathia one-hit the Pirates on Sunday, a fifth-inning single by Andy LaRoche, which has become a point of debate around baseball, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Milwaukee believes the single by LaRoche should have been ruled an error.
"That's a joke," Milwaukee manager Ned Yost said. "The scorekeeper absolutely denied Major League Baseball a no-hitter. He threw a hit up on the board before LaRoche had even hit the bag. It's sad. That's sad. I'm upset. I can see if it was borderline, that it could have gone either way. That wasn't even close."
LaRoche weakly hit the ball on a check-swing, to the left of the mound. Sabathia quickly fielded the ball, but dropped it and wasn't able to make a throw. The official scorekeeper, Bob Webb, almost instantly ruled it a single.
"It is what it is," Sabathia said. "Just lookin' at the replay, I think I would have had him."
"The way the ball came off the bat, it was spinning, and it went to the left of the mound with a left-handed pitcher going to get it. It's a difficult play," Webb said. "The definition requires that standard effort is required, and that would have taken more than an ordinary effort. The runner was well down the line."
LaRoche said, "I'm sure they'll change it to an error. I mean, I obviously didn't hit it very hard, so it really doesn't deserve a hit." [READ] |
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