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Athletics get wrong end of an apparent ABS mistake against the Yankees
By JOSH DUBOW
AP Sports Writer
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) --- The ABS system appeared to hit a rare glitch
during the Athletics' game against the New York Yankees on Saturday night.
A pitch to A's catcher Shea Langeliers in the fourth inning was confirmed as a
strike even though the replay showed it missed the zone by a little less than
an inch.
The call in question came in the fourth inning of the 6-4 win by the Athletics
when Ryan Weathers threw a 2-0 pitch that was called a strike. Langeliers
immediately challenged the call because he thought the pitch was low.
After a short delay, home plate umpire Adam Beck announced that the pitch was
confirmed as a strike and the A's lost their challenge. But the replay on
MLB.com showed the pitch was 0.8 inches low and should have been called a ball.
It ended up being mostly moot as Langeliers eventually drew a walk although the
A's did lose one challenge.
"The explanation on the field was the umpires were told from the communication
upstairs, the controller of the ABS, that the call was confirmed," A's manager
Mark Kotsay said after the game.
Kotsay said the A's got to see the replay at the end of the inning on the iPad
in the dugout, which is standard, and saw that it should have been called a
ball. Kotsay went out to talk to the umpires between innings but was unable to
get the challenge back.
"Obviously, they don't have access to the iPad," Kotsay said. "They only have
access to the information they're being told through their ear piece. That's
something we need clarified through the league and we will have that
conversation with the league."
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