{"id":437924,"date":"2023-06-15T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437924"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:24:11","slug":"nationals-manager-martinez-demands-baseline-rule-change","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nationals-manager-martinez-demands-baseline-rule-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals manager Martinez demands baseline rule change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals head-coach Dave Martinez required the MLB to make a change to its basepath rule after his team fell victim in the clash against Houston Astros, finished with a 5-4 victory for the Houston team.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez used a photo to illustrate what exactly the problem was.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dave Martinez was HEATED after a controversial obstruction call at first base happened at the end of the game<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCBarno?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DCBarno<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0ZWEwJAEXQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0ZWEwJAEXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1669185452832870400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere it is right there,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cTake a look at it. Is that on the line? I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019m over this play. Seriously. They need to fix the rule. If this is what the umpire sees that he\u2019s running down the line, I\u2019m tired of it. I\u2019m tired of it. Fix it. We lost the game, and he had nothing to say about it because he can\u2019t make the right call. Brutal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MLB rules state that \u201cwhen running the last half of the way to first base while the ball is being fielded in the vicinity of first, a baserunner must stay within the three-foot runner\u2019s lane to the right of the foul line unless they are avoiding a player fielding a batted ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When C.H. Abrams threw the ball to get second out, the ball got a deflection off Meyers&#8217; helmet and allowed Abrew to score and that&#8217;s what infuriated the Nationals and their coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals head-coach Dave Martinez required the MLB to make a change to its basepath rule after his team fell victim in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":437925,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17011],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[19877,19876],"acf":{"announce":"The Washington boss was unhappy with a decision that cost his team victory over Astros","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437924"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437924"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}