Just when i thought it was explained properly, I get to the last sentence. Compare the following three below:
AP
"I should have either said, `No catch,' or, if I did have a catch, that he was out. Which I never said: `He's out,"' (Umpire Doug) Eddings said.Plate umpires are trained to shout "No catch!" or indicate that the ball is in play after a swinging strike; Eddings, who has maintained that he was right in saying the ball hit the dirt before Paul gloved it, was silent.
Mike Port, baseball's vice president of umpiring, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Eddings did nothing wrong and that umpires are not required to audibly call "No catch." :blink:
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2005...tory?id=2190652
