PHILADELPHIA -- For the second time in two days, umpires acknowledged they missed a key call in the World Series.
The
Philadelphia Phillies scored in the first inning of Game 4 on Sunday night after
Jimmy Rollins scampered safely back to third during a rundown. But television replays showed he was tagged on the backside by Tampa Bay's
Evan Longoria and should have been called out by third base ump Tim Welke.
"He's seen the replay. He knows he missed it," Mike Port, Major League Baseball's vice president for umpiring, said Monday.
This is the first postseason in which baseball is using replay -- though only to review home run calls.
Longoria swiped his arm in frustration after Rollins was called safe, and Rays manager Joe Maddon came out for a brief argument.
"I just saw him swing and miss. I never saw a tag," Welke explained after Sunday night's game. "That's a swipe tag. A lot of times on a swipe tag, the glove will pause. I saw him try to make a swipe tag but I never saw the glove pause."
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