re braves update in article news duke edu fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu eric roush writes since time immemorial batters have complained about calls so have pitchers and catchers however batters didn t use to go for strolls after bad calls to the degree they do now unless the league notified teams this year about not allowing complaints hirschbeck was acting against expectations everyone was told of the new emphasis on speeding up games the rule that hirschbeck invoked has been in the books a long time it s not as if gant was in hirschbeck s face nobody including hirschbeck ever said he was when gant turned away hirschbeck immediately motioned for gant to step into the box imo at this point in time hirschbeck was determined to show gant exactly who was in charge of this game gant wasn t dawdling he hadn t had a chance to dawdle and hirschbeck was simply exercising a power play that s your perhaps colored by your partisanship of the braves perception hirschbeck s view was that gant was heading off for a long walk and in accordance with his instructions concerning speeding games up directed him into the batter s box gant resisted as many of us might to what we thought was an unreasonable request and hirschbeck called for the pitch the point is based on the rulebook and the umpires instructions it was not an unreasonable request the braves were already upset imo any game where you remember the name of the umpire was a bad game for the umpire had gant done as instructed you wouldn t have remembered the name of the umpire sherri nichols snichols adobe com
