Things I didn't know about baseball

[TranaGreg]

The Cards will never know how lucky they were in that seventh inning. It appeared as if Kozma may have left third base early on the flyball. The Red Sox seemed ready to appeal. However, when Breslow threw the ball into the seats, the ball was dead and no appeal was possible. The play stood. The Cards dodged a bullet.

http://thestar.blogs.com/baseball/

I didn't know that the ball must stay in the field of play in order to allow for an appeal. Hmm.

[BuckyBuckner]

I checked the replay Kozma did not leave early. That's an interesting little tidbit in the rule book though.

[Controller Jacobs]

One of the radio announcers said that the Red Sox could have relieved Breslow in the middle of the at bat, which I didn't know you could do (outside of an injury). From the way they talked, Kozma was in Breslow's head at 2B during the Descalso AB. I would have yanked him for Uehara as soon as I saw that.

[heyelander]

One of the radio announcers said that the Red Sox could have relieved Breslow in the middle of the at bat, which I didn't know you could do (outside of an injury). From the way they talked, Kozma was in Breslow's head at 2B during the Descalso AB. I would have yanked him for Uehara as soon as I saw that.

I thought that while watching the game... not the yanking him part, but just, ignore the runner and get the out...

[TranaGreg]

One of the radio announcers said that the Red Sox could have relieved Breslow in the middle of the at bat, which I didn't know you could do (outside of an injury). From the way they talked, Kozma was in Breslow's head at 2B during the Descalso AB. I would have yanked him for Uehara as soon as I saw that.

If I remember right the only thing with changing pitchers mid at bat is that they aren't given any warm up pitches.

[Don Quixote]

If I remember right the only thing with changing pitchers mid at bat is that they aren't given any warm up pitches.

If it's because of injury, the new pitcher gets "all the time he needs".