re: Video of Raph and Ole Miss Catcher?

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Then the lifting the elbow to make sure he got a piece of the runner made it worse. I think the ump warned him, which is probably why Bianco came out of the dugout. It was a dirty play intended to make it look like just rugged baseball, but he planted in the path and could see the throw wasn't coming to that spot.

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I noticed that elbow/shoulder the catcher set to put a hit on Rhymes, too. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "dirty" as it may have just been instinct when he saw the collision coming, but it wasn't purely innocent, "oh, I'm just here trying to catch a ball." He clearly set for impact as Rhymes was approaching and put on what would have been called a "hard screen" in basketball.