Wow. People who edit "Wikipedia" waste no time:
Most recently, McClelland worked home plate for the one game playoff between San Diego and Colorado. In the bottom of the 13th inning, with the score even at 8-8, the Rockies appeared to score the winning run on a sacrifice fly when McClelland called the tagging baserunner safe. It appeared the baserunner, Matt Holliday, did not in fact touch home plate on the slide, getting blocked by San Diego catcher Michael Barrett. McClelland also hesitated several seconds before making the safe call. McClelland’s noncommittal call, as well as the delay in making it, calls into question whether or not he had the proper angle to make it, and whether he was apprehensive about making a call that would have gone against the home team at a pivotal moment in the game.
Tim McClelland needs to be slapped. Terrible call in an important game. Maybe the Rockies would have come back and won anyway, but McClelland totally blew it.
Matt Holliday is being interviewed on TBS and even HE knows he didn’t touch the plate. This is no way to win a playoff spot.
So, of course, now I have to root for the Phillies.
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