Blue Jays are confident that the umpires incorrectly ruled no catch, a breakdown

Bobby Wit stepping to the plate for the Royals who are down four against Toronto looking to make a comeback in the fifth inning. This breakdown is brought to you by SeatGeek. Spinning his bat, getting ready. Spinning his bat, getting ready. We got a runner on first base. We got ball one high and outside. The one pitch little curveball breaking ballesque thing. One and one back in the count. And then fast ball off of that, but he missed. Two in one count. Bobby Wit's looking to put it in play. He's looking to make some stuff happen. 89 miles per hour. Not sure what it is, but it's caught in center field. They go to double up the runner on first. Oh, wait. No, he's safe. What? What? Bar's looking around. You say I didn't catch it. I caught it. What did you call it? Was it a catch? All right, let's take a look. Here's what they called it. It's a third base umpire who is going to signal no catch, no catch, no catch, no catch. Now, you can review catches in the outfield, not catches in the infield. But yes, that is what happened. He signaled no catch, no catch, no catch. The base runner saw the signal from the third base hump. He got to second, so it's a single, but they say challenge the catch. Yeah, we're going to challenge that. We're feeling good about it. They're nodding. They're like, "Yeah, he caught Okay. I know. Thought he did. Thought he had vars says, "Thank you very much." Yeah. Okay. Well, let's let's take a look. Put on the jumbotron, please. They all look up center field and they're going to see the replays and this is what they see. Here's one angle. Pretty far away. Clearly comes up with the ball. Let's zoom in a little bit. It's grainy, but okay. In his glove. It's never loose. Comes up with the ball. All right. Another angle. In his glove. Never bobbled or loose. comes up with it again. Okay. To me, looks like a catch. Let's see what the Ms say. >> The call on the field stands. No catch. Toronto loses their challenge. >> Whoa. >> What? Now, I saw all those replays I just showed you and I was hot cuz me and MLB replay the way they do their reviews. We don't get along. I'm not a fan of it. I don't I think there's much better ways to do it. So, I was like, "Give me this footage. Let's break it down. How did this happen?" And then I got the footage and I broke it down. And now I know I know how it happened. Because the way MLB does it is you need to be 100% convinced, without a doubt, the call on the field was wrong to overturn it. And this right there, I think, is what they saw. And they said, "Well, if the ground didn't exist, does he catch that ball or did the snow cone catch, the ball hits the grass and it is secured?" That right there, that's the spot. I'm guessing that is what MLB Replay saw. He said, "Well, we we don't know. That ball could have been a little loose, hit the ground." Now, I don't think it was. I think it's a catch, but it was ruled no catch. and you need the most overwhelming evidence ever to overturn that. So, yeah. Well, I think that that's a catch. I understand what MLB did. I don't agree with it because I don't agree with the whole process, but the process they have in place, I understand why they made that call. Again, I don't agree with it. The catch rule is the hardest thing in cricket. It's really defined and it's ridiculous because you can make a diving catch with one hand and then as you you dive if you're still securing the ball perfectly but the ball hits the grass they'll rule no catch. So I don't like that ruling that they have in cricket. But I like the black and whiteness of it because players now they make a they take a catch and they hold their hand up like as if they're in water and you can't bring the ball underwater otherwise the catch doesn't count. like they just they make sure the ball doesn't touch the grass. And if that was the rule, I think maybe baseball players would get used to it. Uh I just like the no no ambiguity of it. But on this play for me, that's a catch. It feels like it's getting harder and harder and harder to get calls overturned in Major League Baseball. As we go on, more things are standing than ever. That's I don't I don't have the stats to back that up, but that's how it feels to me is just like it's impossible to get things to get overturned cuz you need the most evidence in the world. The Blue Jays say, "Sorry, pitch. You're out." It should have been a double play. It's not. And now here's a double play. It's not. Missed. Now the runner advances to third. It should have been out of this thing. It's got a hole in it. What's going on? My glove. It wasn't me. My glove must have a hole in it. Not because I placed it wrong or mistimed the throw. I mean, that's funny. Uh, it's just got a hole in it. I can appreciate some self-deprecating humor out there. Next batter comes up, he scores. You would have been out of the inning if it was a double play if the runner did not get back to first on the catch that they called the no catch. Six to three. Still only one out. We've got another base hit by Salvi. Now it's six to four cuz Vinnie's booming around the bases. He touches home. Two-run game. Still two on, only one out. Hump back line drive. They double them up. Pitcher fired up. He loves it. Base runners not. Maybe that's just a little bit of evening the fields from the baseball gods. Anyway, what do you think? Is that a catch? Is that not a catch? How do you fix the rules? How do you fix the rules so that things are what fans deem them to be? Or do the majority of you think that's not a catch? I'd be shocked. But maybe maybe you want to go see a baseball game and you don't want to pay full price. You want 10% off. You use code Johnboy10 at SeatGeek. Playoffs are coming up. Johnboy 10 gets you 10% off any ticket at SeatKeep.