The Mets lost a game yesterday in the 10th. With two outs in the inning, a Braves batter hit a ground ball to the infield and was called safe by the 1st base umpire. Replay showed that the batter probably was out "by an eyelash," to use Gary Cohen's phrase. Next guy up hit a three-run home run and one player and the manager were ejected.
For the rest of the game, Cohen and Keith Hernandez referred with increasing frequency the "blown call" that allowed the Braves half to continue. This is perhaps false, and anyway is a waste of time and energy.
First, it is not for sure that the film speed of the cameras used by SNY is fast enough to have gotten the call right. The difference in the play may well have been less than one frame, and if that's true then the camera would be not better than the umpire's eye at getting it right. Second, it was so incredibly close that everyone needs to accept that it could go either way and move on. The game was lost by the first pitch fastball the Braves hit into the stands.
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