NY papers are saying it might be a career ending injury. Utley the luckiest man in baseball, clearly going for the tackle and never came close to touching the base. Called out and then Tejada wheeled off to the hospital after the hockey style goon hit. For a reward Utley gets the out call overturned and put back on second instead of the umpires calling both runners out for interference. I disagree strongly with them that it wasn't a neighborhood play as Tejada was moving to throw to first. Utley also should have been thrown out of the game and Joe Torre said he is going to be looking into discipline for Utley for the late slide. Umpiring in this series is some of the worst I've seen in 45 years of watching baseball.
While I did not see the game, I did see the highlights, the slide was extremely late and definitely intentional.
I believe the rule book says as long as he can reach the bag, hes ok with where the slide was, I don't agree, but I think thats what its listed as.
Utley gets 2 games and wants to appeal .... of course he does, he'll appeal and play the next two games and the season could be over, or he could do something positive to help the team advance.
If they don't deny the appeal tomorrow, MLB will be a laughing stock with thier rules.
