The ending of tonight's game shows you that over a 162 game season, bad umpire calls are eventually evened out with fortuitous decisions. So, as much as you want to bitch and complain over bad calls, you are better off just being patient until some calls eventually go your way. (Yeah, I know...I'm wasting my breath here. No one in this town will ever heed that advice.)
Just last Friday, the Phils were screwed by the umps when a base runner interference call negated a key run against the Padres. The frustrating thing was that the base runner interference had no bearing on the runner scoring. Even if Giles turned the double play, the run still would have scored as there was no outs at the time. It really seemed that the Phils were jobbed out of an important run by that dubious call.
Fast forward to this evening and worm turned in the Phils' favor. Game 3 of the 4 game series ended when the Captain's former favorite Phils' 2nd baseman, Marlon Anderson, was called out for baserunner's interference. Once again, the interference didn't make much of a difference as to whether the run would have scored. It sure seemed like there was no way Iguchi would have thrown out Shawn Green at first, but nevertheless the umpire still called out the runner at first for Anderson's over-enthusiastic slide into Tad.
So there you go, as pissed off as I was over Friday night's call, I can't help but feel like the cat that ate the canary after seeing how the Phils got the benefit of an umpire call tonight. My favorite part of the evening was Anderson's reaction to the call. That was just priceless.
By the way, I'm still not back on the bandwagon...no yet anyway.
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