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joes8710,000+ posts

I've seen this happen before. Runner on third. Ump bends down to brush plate without actually calling time. Runner on third tries to take home with pitcher and catcher are having a chat halfway between home and the mound while ump is cleaning plate. Runner takes out ump on slide into home.

Ump sends runner back to 3rd saying "time was implied". Coach comes out to argue with ump. Lots of back and forth about respecting the game and then the Coach was EJ'd. I'm with the ump in the spirit of the game thing in that you have time when he was bent over and you should respect that. But I can see an argument for the fact that he never really called time.

6/22/1510:15 AM

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