And if Bolt isn't called "out" (and he truly wasn't, when the replay shows him hitting the bag with ball still 3-4 feet away from the first baseman's glove), there are only 2 outs an we still have a runners on 3rd and 1st with a good hitter coming to bat.
You left out the bogus force out at second base when the relay man in the attempted double play in the ninth inning rally failed to get the runner at first - replays showed he was nowhere near touching second before he relayed to first. A run scored but 2nd base was left open (And they tallied their first out of the inning) until their shut down closer walked he next batter (which should have walked another run and kept even more pressure on that struggling pitcher). Blatant blown call per the announcers, and to make it even worse, it reminded me of a call in a similar situation in the LSU game where Russell was pulled slightly off the bag to make the catch before his relay , and he LSU player was ruled "safe".
Officiating last night was certainly several notches below that of both NCSU games, from the excessively wide and low strike zone to apparent incompetent or biased officiating on the base paths.
Not confident we would have won anyway, but I'd have a much better feeling about the way it ended, without the "what ifs" detailed above. Those blown calls on the base paths totally changed the strategy and possibly the outcome of the game.
This post was edited on 6/22 1:51 PM by 6666Heel
