An instant of a game caught on high definition camaras, broadcast on line at MLB and paused by me at this instant. The shot reminds me of the action in the Ty Cobb photo (see below) of him sliding into third, into the camera.
Everything's in motion in this frame. The tension before resolution is at it's zenith. I love the way the umpire is 'flowing' with the play.
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| "Izturis slides, Perez blocks, Jerry Meals gets into position" by Michael Holloway |
So what happened?!
--> Izturis looked to be blocked off the plate, but the ump had the only good look at it - he ruled the runner's cleat touched the plate (otherwise he was out).
Charles M. Conlon's photograph of Ty Cobb (1910), via Graham Womack's Twitter background image - https://twitter.com/grahamdude
Updated version - with cropped section restored (from Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon 1993)
Screen Print via Time Magazine http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/19/the-golden-age-of-baseball-photographs-by-charles-m-conlon/#11
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Top image created from a screenshot from MLB, Gameday, "Kawasaki's sac fly"
MLB | "Kawasaki's sac fly" | TOR@KC: Kawasaki drives in Izturis with a sac fly (01:16)
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_04_13_tormlb_kcamlb_1&mode=box
(Can't link directly to it - the link above gets you to the MLB Box Score for this game. Click on the Video Tab at the top and check the list of videos for this game - your looking for, "Kawasaki's sac fly".)
[This is a bad user experience, MLB Advanced Media.]
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