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Non-Royals baseball news, just now exploding on twitter. The umps apparently badly blew a call in the Rays-Orioles game that probably stopped a comeback.

Rays down 6-2 in the bottom of the 9th, runners on first and 2nd no outs with Longoria up. Longoria belts one to the wall, first base runner is holding up near second to make sure that it wasn't going to be caught. Its not, banged off the wall, lead runner scores, he goes to third, Longoria at 2nd, runners at 2nd and 3rd no out down 3.

The umpires rule that Longoria committed a little league mistake, saying he passed the runner who was holding up near second, so he's out, they just have man on 3rd down 3 with 1 out.

The replays clearly show that Longoria did not pass the runner. As I typed this, they just got another baserunner before the final out, game over. So, without that blown call the Rays would have had the lead runner at the plate for one more out.