Really?? Unthinkable "catch" call in CLE-NYY game

[Spy Fox]

Check out this video of a maybe great play by a Yankees LF.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_06_26_clemlb_nyamlb_1&mode=wrap#gid=2012_06_26_clemlb_nyamlb_1&mode=video

On a foul pop-up by Jack Hannahan, umpire Mike DiMuro calls this leaping play by Dewayne Wise a catch. Understandable, because the ball appeared to hit Wise's glove as he fell into the stands. But then he never asks Wise to show the ball and prove the out, despite the fact that he went tumbling into the seats. The ball had never been in the glove and had rolled away down the row. Wise gets out of the stands about two feet away from DiMuro--without the ball--but DiMuro then signals catch. Oh yeah, and a fan in the first row was holding the dropped ball up in the air clearly visible about 10 feet to the left of the umpire.

Then when Hannahan complains to DiMuro later in the game, naturally he gets immediately ejected.

[Can_of_corn]

Odd how those calls never go against the Yankees.

[Orioles0615]

The best is the guy in the red shirt, LMAO

[OrangeJerseys]

Disgusting.

[weams]

Disgusting.

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/d/tim_donaghy/index.html

[NewMarketSean]

Odd how those calls never go against the Yankees.

Yup. My thoughts exactly.

[tennOsfan]

As a HS umpire, I've probably booted plenty of calls. But that's just poor to not make the fielder show the ball on a catch where it's real hard to see what went on. I'd expect so much more from an MLB ump.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Well, Sabathia just went to the DL and in today's game Pettitte threw one pitch, got hit by a grounder, and now he's out. So the baseball gods are getting some payback.

[lormat]

The umps are probably on the Yankees payroll too.

[russ snyder]

Wow. What a tough night for Hannahan. He gets called out, and then he gets thrown out of the game. Dimuro should be subjected to some sort of discipline for this travesty of umpiring. Oh, the brutality!

[OFFNY]

Wow. What a tough night for Hannahan. He gets called out, and then he gets thrown out of the game. Dimuro should be subjected to some sort of discipline for this travesty of umpiring. Oh, the brutality!

http://www.curmudgeonsays.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Guillotine_24082007_31.jpg

[russ snyder]

http://www.curmudgeonsays.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Guillotine_24082007_31.jpg

That's good. :thumbsup1:

[Malike]

Aubrey Huff would have told the ump that was a Horse**** call.

[CA-ORIOLE]

I don't know. The ump making that out call right in front of the fan holding the ball is one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile.

[Camden_yardbird]

The question is...do you think this is gamesmanship or cheating?