Phil Cuzzi Wrong Call Eases Yankees Win Against Twins
October 10th, 2009 - 7:02 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
New York, October 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Once again umpiring made a team lose a match in the playoffs. After C.B. Bucknor, it was Phil Cuzzi, whose umpiring made Minnesota Twins lose the chance of winning the game against Yankees. Twins team could not recover the loss that was done by a wrong call of umpire Cuzzi.
The video replay showed that Umpire Cuzzi had made a wrong call which prevented Mauer to help the team score victory. Though umpiring was a reason for Twins’ losing the match, still they did not blame the umpire. The umpire later admitted his mistake but this did not help Twins in any way.
Tim Tschida, the chief of the crew when interviewed talked about the wrong decision made by the umpire. He said that the umpires need to change their positions during the game as they have to move away from the way of the players. They might make some mistakes while changing the positions. Checking the video record of the match is the only means to judge the mistakes made during the game. Tschida did not make any comment on changing the rules of the game. He told that making alterations in rule is the discretion of higher officials.
Twins manager, Ron Gardenhire admitted his disappointments after the loss. Joe Giradi, the manager for Yankees said that the wrong call of the umpire brought some advantages for his team. He also said that in game nothing can be said as absolutely perfect.
Joe Mauer could have scored a victory run in eleventh innings if the umpiring had been perfect. Though umpire’s call was bit advantageous for Yankees but the team had played well in the match to get the win.
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