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re: The Homerun overrule was an awful call. Photo inside
Posted on 5/4/24 at 12:05 am to lsupride87
Posted on 5/4/24 at 12:05 am to lsupride87
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Picture is from right field, but dimensions are the same. This shows the space between the fence he leaned over and the actual wall. This is why an overturn there is egregious.
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I think it was a bad call, because there was nothing indisputable about the fan touching the ball. But in fairness, looking at that photo, you CAN reach over the wall. Look at the guy in the purple shirt, back to the camera. If he sticks his arm out, he will clear the wall. The space between the fence and the wall looks smaller than his body width (meaning he could not stand in there sideways), and his arm is clearly longer than his body is wide.
If he has a glove, it will go over the wall... which is what Birmingham apparently ruled.
Y'all can downvote if you like, it doesn't matter as we won anyway.
I did a screen capture with the twitter video, then zoomed in. It's obviously very blurry, because not only do you get the enlargement pixelation, you also get the motion blur from the ball.
But there's a point where the ball does align with his glove, and the blur of the ball is not round on the bottom- as though it was obscured by part of his glove. It looks like a cresent moon, with the dark edge at about 4 to 5 o'clock.
![](https://i.ibb.co/X74Xq7w/glove.jpg)
This post was edited on 5/4/24 at 12:46 am
Posted on 5/4/24 at 12:55 am to Scoob
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But in fairness, looking at that photo, you CAN reach over the wall
I fairness, you can't. You can't tell from that picture as the perspective is off.
Not only is the distance too far to reach but it's several feet down from the chain link fence. You would need a 6 foot arm at least to reach the field of play.
Posted on 5/4/24 at 7:09 am to Scoob
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I did a screen capture with the twitter video, then zoomed in.
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But in fairness, looking at that photo, you CAN reach over the wall.
Now look at the pic you posted. It looks like the kid’s wrist is over the bleacher barrier. His arm isn’t fully extended over the chain link. That’s a home run.
Posted on 5/4/24 at 9:37 am to Scoob
![](https://i.ibb.co/X74Xq7w/glove.jpg)
Studying this is like studying JFK Dallas footage
![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/IconLOL.gif)
This post was edited on 5/4/24 at 9:38 am
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