Expect to see less of this, Starting Thursday.
Baseball has finally caught up with the times.
Major League Baseball will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday.
Three series are scheduled to start Thursday, with Philadelphia at the Chicago Cubs, Minnesota at Oakland and Texas at the Los Angeles Angels. For other games, replays will be available to umpires starting Friday.
For now, video will be used only on so-called "boundary calls," such as determining whether fly balls went over the fence, whether potential home runs were fair or foul and whether there was fan interference on potential home runs.
Good to see that Baseball is catching up with the times. For those who say "this will make baseball even longer now" I think It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as they get the calls right, especially as we head into October with the Postseason and the World Series!
Here's ESPN's Buster Olney on MLB's decision to start using instant replay with series starting on Thursday.
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