I just don't see the ball changing direction as it went by the foul pole.
Let's say the umpires ruled it a homerun. The final score would look like this: Yankees 3, Orioles 2. The Orioles still lose.
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Via Star-Ledger: Yankees vs. Orioles: Even Nate McLouth said foul call was fair
Umpire Fieldin Culbreth called it a foul ball. Replays seemed to back up that ruling, but Showalter wanted another opinion.
"I saw it go to the right of the pole," Culbreth told a pool reporter. "There is netting there and it didn’t touch the netting. It did not change direction."
Crew chief Brian Gorman concurred.
"We saw the same thing on the replay," Gorman said. "There was no evidence to overturn the decision."
McLouth, frankly, didn’t see what all the fuss was about. He thought it had been foul from the moment he hit it and even reacted that way upon Culbreth’s initial call.
"It was real close, obviously. But from what I could see, it was foul," he said. "I didn’t know for sure, but it was so close. It was close. He (Culbreth) was closer than I was, so I took his word for it."
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Foul Ball.
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