Baseball Rules ?

Baseball is complicated (skip to 10 minutes in):

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_f8KpkKczQ

Apparent 4th out ?  Huh ?  Here is the explanation from The Athletic:

What are 'fourth outs'?

Let’s set the scene: It’s the seventh inning. Runners are on the corners. Toronto leads Boston 2-0. The center-field scoreboard shows two outs, so both runners go on contact. 

 Except there weren’t two outs. An earlier play was announced in the press box as a double play, but the hitter (the Red Sox’s Nick Sogard) was the runner on first. As Anthony Seigler crossed home plate, the scoreboard operator realized the mistake. 

 Watch the very top of this GIF, as the number of outs rolls back from two to one:

Blue Jays pitcher Simeon Woods-Richardson and catcher Brandon Valenzuela pounded their gloves in unison, seemingly also believing it to be three outs. 

 Second baseman Josh Smith knew. But when he doubled up Sogard at first to end the inning, why did the run count? Turns out, as Mitch Bannon reports here, it’s a timing play. You can read Rule 5.09(c)(4) yourself (on page 50), but here’s the explanation:

    Seigler did not tag up, so if the Blue Jays had thrown to third base, rather than first, Seigler would have been out; no run. 

    If he had tagged up and crossed home plate before the third out (at first base), the run would have counted.

    Since neither thing happened, it required an appeal at third. But! 

    “If the violation occurs during a play which ends a half-inning, the appeal must be made before the defensive team leaves the field … Appeal plays may require an umpire to recognize an apparent ‘fourth out.’ … For the purpose of this rule, the defensive team has ‘left the field’ when the pitcher and all infielders have left fair territory on their way to the bench or Clubhouse.” 

If the Blue Jays had stayed on the field — even after the third out — and appealed to third base, Seigler would have been ruled out. That was at the crux of the argument, Max Scherzer told Blue Jays sideline reporter Hazel Mae, claiming that the umps had waved the Blue Jays off the field, thus preventing an appeal. 

 Wait. This play — the one that confused an entire stadium and all its players, coaches and umpires, and required treating an entirely imaginary concept as real — Scherzer knew. He knew exactly what was happening. 

 “Absolutely,” Mae said he told her. “I have seen this before.” 

All I know is that baseball is different than when Henry Aaron and Rico Carty played in Milwaukee.  

Let's not even get started on ball and strike calls but it's weird how everyone bows down to the almighty machine and meekly accepts their verdict :(

In this game the weirdness didn't matter, the Blue Jays still won but too many machines and rules involved !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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