Baseball's controversial calls

[Brent Burns]

It is definitely going to be one of the most talked-about and most controversial calls in the annals of baseball- fielding a pitched ball in the 9th inning of the Angels-White Sox game. What do you all think about that?

What is one of your most memorable MLB controversial calls? Mine is when a Cincinnati Reds player put himself in front of the catcher during a bunting situation. That was a controversial call.

[CATLAX MAN]

Gotta to be the time Reggie Jackson intentionally got himself hit with the ball in a rundown between 1st & 2nd base in the World Series. Forget what year it was, but it was the turning point of the Series.

[byualum]

Gotta to be the time Reggie Jackson intentionally got himself hit with the ball in a rundown between 1st & 2nd base in the World Series. Forget what year it was, but it was the turning point of the Series.

As a life-long Dodger fan I can tell you that was the 1978 Series. Dodgers took the first two games, then dropped four straight. After Reggie's 3-HR game in the '77 Series, this bush-league move was even worse.

[Sonny]

The call was pretty huge last night in the White Sox/Angels game. I don't think I've ever seen something like that happen before.

[Danny Hogan]

i still hate baseball but that little shit that pulled that HR into the stands in teh Baltimore/NY playoff series in the mid 90's has to be up there. Totally swung that series in the NY direction.

[Tim Gray]

What about the kid, Jeffrey Maier, I believe who reached over and caught the ball in the Yankees/Orioles game in '96 I beileve. That turned that series around as well.

[Danny Hogan]

tim quit reading my inner monologue

[CATLAX MAN]

As a life-long Dodger fan . . . ..

Nobody's perfect. Everyone has their faults.

[Tim Gray]

tim quit reading my inner monologue

Sorry Danny, they're just too interesting.

[byualum]

As a life-long Dodger fan . . . ..

Nobody's perfect. Everyone has their faults.

Spoken like a true Giants fan...

[ZagGrad]

I think the best part of the "ball in the dirt call" is that everyone on the Angels team said: "You can't just look at that one play and say it was the reason we lost. If we were to win, we should have won regardless of what happened on that particular play." I haven't heard any of the Angels blame the umpire for their loss, which I think is pretty cool.

[Dan Wishengrad]

My favorite umpire/manager call was from the '69 World Series. A Met's batter (I think it was Cleon Jones) was arguing to the home plate ump that a ball in the dirt had actually hit him in the foot. The Ump said no, it's just ball one. Ol' Casey Stengel comes limping out of the Met's dugout and calls for the ball, gets it, and shows the ump a smudge of black shoe polish on it. Ump changes his call and the batter is awarded first base...

[Baller1]

Duck the Fodgers

[TexOle]

There have been controversial calls, but I think many times the Angels have quit playing. Baseball umpiring is strange. Often times there are no calls made and you have to play until the call is made. Most people fail to realize that. I got yelled at for calling a ball fair one time. You do not call a ball fair.

[Brent Burns]

Still remember that umpire by the last name of Gregg? Some team was complaining about his liberal strike zone. I believe that was during either NLCS or ALCS several years ago.