re: LSU women just got hosed. That was a foul ball.

I can't for the life of me understand how you can argue that it's foul. Clearly a fair ball. It's fair with the angle shown and would be even more fair if the view was straight down the line. The ball only has to cross over a part of the bag and does not have to land in fair territory past the base, provided that its last contact with the ground prior to crossing over the base is in fair territory. This was clearly the case here.

Also, as was mentioned it's the plate umpire's call for everything to the bag. Although you want to be in the best position possible to make the call (in a straight line looking down 3B), it would be impossible to do so given how hard the ball was hit.