SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Xander Bogaerts of the San Diego Padres had a home run\u00a0overturned due to fan interference, and manager Mike Shildt was ejected for coming out of the dugout to talk to the umpires in the second inning of Monday night\u2019s game against the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n
The call turned out to be critical because\u00a0the Padres lost 4-3.<\/p>\n
Bogaerts hit a flyball to left field that appeared to bounce out of Heliot Ramos\u2019 glove and over the fence as two fans, including one in a Giants shirt, reached for it. The ball might have clipped one of the fans\u2019 arms and, after a lengthy review, the home run call was overturned and Bogaerts was called out. Shildt was ejected immediately when he came out of the dugout.<\/p>\n
Fans booed the rest of the inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo contact. It was a big run. Huge,\u201d Shildt said. \u201cListen, I don\u2019t bark at the league a lot, but the definition that we got from replay was that it was clear that there was some impediment that took place. Clearly, he didn\u2019t touch the baseball. … And if it\u2019s so clear, how come it takes 2 minutes, 40 seconds to figure it out? What are you looking for? If it\u2019s so clear, overturn it early and if it\u2019s not, it\u2019s a home run.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just really disappointing to go that long and have to come up with a conclusion that\u2019s not conclusive to overturn a home run. It cost us an opportunity to win a baseball game. … I had a lot of time on my hands and if you can find an angle where the fan touched the baseball, I\u2019d like to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramos wasn\u2019t surprised the call was overturned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did think I had it easier than that, but whenever I was about to catch it, I saw his arm was over me, kind of him, so I\u2019m guessing it hit the arm or something. I saw the replay and it only shows the guy on the bottom, it doesn\u2019t show the guy on the top, but he was like literally over me and his whole body was across the wall. It just clipped the finger a little bit. Before the ball got to my glove, he was already with his hands up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramos said the fan blocked his view \u201ca little bit because I saw his shadow coming on top of me so I was kind of confused about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Giants manager Bob Melvin said it appeared the fan \u201creached over. I think it just nicked him. Regardless, if your hand\u2019s over it could affect his vision, too. You don\u2019t see that call often but I think it was the right one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramos hit a leadoff homer against Nestor Cortes, one of three homers within the first five batters that gave the Giants a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Xander Bogaerts of the San Diego Padres had a home run\u00a0overturned due to fan…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,8037,3549,1306,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-157828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115054278755810384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}