Just now, in the bottom of the fifth of World Series Game 1, Robinson Cano hit a weird little blooper to Jimmy Rollins, which looked to the naked eye like it barely bounced into Rollins’s glove. It wasn’t; Rollins caught it. Then he touched second base. Then Rollins fired the ball to first to attempt to get Cano, while Matsui had wandered off of first and stopped when Rollins touched second, assuming he was out. Rollins was on top of the play, telling Howard to tag Matsui, and after a brief umpire conference, both Matsui and Cano were out. As they should have been.
Hideki Matsui Fails To Follow The Ball Into The Glove
↵Is this confusing yet? The point of the fable, Hideki, is that you always watch the ball into the glove. Fundamental stuff, man. Oh, and props to the umps. We very nearly had our first crisis of the World Series, and isn’t everyone tired of talking about instant replay already?
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