In Reply to: Of course. In fairness to Roberts, DrB brought up that… posted by Fuzzy on October 14, 2024 at 12:19:32
It was a heads up play by Machado, who took advantage of some loose rules that should be altered.
The rules say that a runner establishes his own path, which means just by running onto the grass doesn’t mean Machado was out of the basepath. A runner would be out if they intentionally interfere with a throw. The issue is since Machado wasn’t facing the throw, an umpire couldn’t 100 percent establish intent, even though Machado clearly moved into the way of the fielder at second base.