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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 10-12-21 Baseball's Absurd Rule

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Sunday night in Game 3 of the Red Sox/Rays series Tampa got screwed by a bad rule.  A Ground Rule Double may have changed the outcome of the series.  My rant talks about why MLB needs to change the rule! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:03.0

Grant.

0:05.0

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0:25.2

racist this and that I really examine it on today's podcast if you don't like

0:31.2

that Sunday night Fenway Park extra innings the rays should

0:35.7

have had an easy run a ball hit to right center field the runner from first was

0:41.6

already on second when the ball went out of play hits the wall bounces off the red Sox

0:47.0

Outfielder into the bullpen and by rule they have to send the player from home back to third there was two outs and the

0:53.8

raised don't score bottom of the frame the red socks with a walk-off Homer

0:57.4

and game is over there needs to be some common sense into the rules of sports we understand what the ground rule double means.

1:04.6

You're awarded two bases, but I could have scored on that easily at 62 years of age.

1:10.4

Running backwards I probably could have scored it's just a bad rule there

1:14.7

has to be some common sense involved I mean wouldn't it be a shame if that ends up

1:18.6

cost and raise a chance to the a l cs and who knows maybe they don't win the game anyway but it certainly changed the entire momentum and feel of that game around

1:27.3

Baseball's got to be better than that they's got to fix that rule they have to allow some leeway. Again, common sense. The runner's already

1:34.8

passing second base when the ball goes out of play. You're not going to reward

1:38.5

him home plate. That is just wrong, absolutely awful.

1:42.8

And I don't know what's going to end up in the series, as you're listening to this, it may be over or

1:46.4

maybe heading back to Tampa for a game five.

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