Saturday night time the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies opened the National League Division Series at Truist Park, and Philadelphia’s Game 1 win (PHI 3, ATL 0) featured some late-inning controversy. In the 8th inning, Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto was awarded first base on catcher interference — his swing made touch with Sean Murphy’s glove — which compelled in a run with the bases loaded.
Here’s the play. It sounded like Realmuto’s swing hit Murphy’s glove and Murphy reacted just like the swing hit his glove, despite the fact that there there was no transparent replay at the tv broadcast appearing the bat hit the glove:
The Braves challenged the play and, a couple of moments later, the replay workforce in New York dominated the catcher interference call stands. “Stands” is bureaucratic terminology, it must be famous. “Stands” manner the replay workforce didn’t see sufficient conclusive proof to overturn the call at the box. “Confirmed” manner there was transparent proof to enhance the call at the box.
“All I had was the big board,” Braves manager Brian Snitker stated in regards to the catcher interference. “I looked and Murph didn’t say anything, and I don’t know that a hitter reacts like that. Things happen too quick for a guy to react like that if it didn’t happen, but I couldn’t tell off the video there.”
After the sport, Murphy said, “I didn’t feel it, but I heard it.”
The MLB rulebook defines defensive interference as “an act by a fielder that hinders or prevents a batter from hitting a pitch.”
After the exchange ruling was introduced to the group, Braves fanatics spoke back via throwing particles — beer cans, cups, meals packing containers, and so on. — at the box. The recreation was not on time a number of mins whilst the sphere was wiped clean up.
“There’s no excuse for that,” Snitker stated after the sport. “I’ve been on that field when that’s happened and it’s scary because those water bottles when they come, they’re like grenades, and it could really seriously injure one of our players. That’s uncalled for.”
This is harking back to the 2012 NL Wild Card Game, when Braves fanatics littered the sphere with particles following a controversial infield fly rule call. In that recreation, the group was warned the Braves must forfeit because of unplayable prerequisites in the event that they persisted to throw particles at the box. Saturday’s mess didn’t upward push to that degree.
The catcher interference stretched Philadelphia’s result in 3-0. The Phillies scored their first two runs on a Bryson Stott unmarried and a Bryce Harper solo house run. Six Phillies relievers close the Braves out around the ultimate 5 1/3 innings. Game 1 was the primary time since Aug. 28, 2021, that the Braves had been close out at house.
