It wasn't even close either. It clearly hit the black thing that is touching the netting. Itd be like saying well anything that hits the wall is a home run because the wall touches the homerun line. [Reply]
I've been looking at the video frame by frame, and it's a little difficult to follow the ball when it gets near the foul pole. But these two screenshots pretty much show that it was foul. The ball is circled in red in both shots.
In the first one, you can see that there is not a white blur in front of that black bar sticking out, which is in foul territory according to the announcers.
In the second one, the ball is clearly in front of that bar. Again, foul according to the announcers.
And if we are and they rule in our favor, they resume the game from that point with us leading 2-1, right? None of the other runs count at that point. [Reply]
"Protesting a game shall never be permitted, regardless of whether such complaint is based on judgment decisions by the umpire or an allegation that an umpire misapplied these rules or otherwise rendered a decision in violation of these rules."
