re: Milam’s Double - no HR

The confusion stems from older parks that had a yellow circular pad on the very top face of the wall and some ball park ground rules would say,”if a ball hits that yellow pad it’s a home run.” Which meant it pretty much guaranteed to continue as a homer if the pad wasn’t there. Now the top front face of the wall is painted yellow which allows a clear picture against objects behind of where the top of the wall ends.

Usually isn't unless it leaves the park. There are places where there's a ground rule saying yellow line is a homer which might be why he's confused.

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If you look closely at the replay, the outfielder would have probably made the catch but his glove hit the underside of the yellow overhanging padding.
Another good luck moment for the Tigers !

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It’s not good luck that the fence wasn’t further back.

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He swears if it hit the yellow it’s a HR. Guess he’s an idiot. Thanks yall!

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I think there were a few parks that had a yellow line at one time on a flat fence where the line indicated a home run, but even those had to hit above the line, if my recollection is correct. Now they are usually padding atop the fence to indicate if a ball clears the fence and then bounces back into play after hitting an object behind the fence (like the Jones homerun earlier in the CWS)

The broadcasters were too busy saying how the outfielder should have caught the ball to explain the ground rules.

You people are insufferable. She clearly stated they had no audio and wondering why they kept looking at the replay....jeezzzee

Ball hit top of yellow trim on fence. Ball was still in play. They kept looking at it because it was so close and of course the media always has to be dramatic. 6 more inches, it would have gone out.

No doubt

How about the one Brown hit. That Ball looked like it was going to the moon and it was a routine fly out... that wind was strong