As Texas Rangers second baseman Alberto Gonzalez attempted a gutsy 11th-inning squeeze bunt against Detroit on Sunday, the Tigers infield stood stagnant: First baseman Miguel Cabrera forgot to cover first and pitcher Thad Weber, who had fielded the ball, didn't bother throwing home.
Yet while the Tigers froze in confusion and Texas celebrated a go-ahead score, Detroit's venerable manager Jim Leyland knew exactly what to do, marching right up to home plate umpire Tim Welke and claiming that the ball should have been declared dead long before bedlam broke loose.
Leyland had seen an odd carom at home plate and was questioning the play's physics: Gonzalez had bunted the ball straight down and it had ended up in front of the pitcher's mound.
Welke gathered his crew of umpires, including Paul Schrieber, Mike Everitt and Mike Estabrook, consulting with them for several seconds before determining that none of them had seen anything out of...
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