Confusing ending sends Washington to LLWS, a breakdown

takes the o2 pitch and sends it all

right off the kids glove such restraint

there by that little kid in center field

see how bad he wants to hit the the

fence

stops himself upset hey he got there he

got all the way there jumped a little

missed it what are you gonna do oh but

he's mad at himself now the game is tied

washington has done it the kid once he

saw was a home run he actually sped up

his trot he was jogging and then he

sprinted home jumps uh that that threw

me for such a loop usually when someone

jumps on the plate like this they're

gonna come down full force both feet on

the plate power jump home run but he

he just does the left foot the right

foot spreads at the end and that kind of

like took a little wind out of my sail i

was excited and then you remember their

little leaguers and he's celebrating

celebrating he's like i gotta go get my

back guys get off me i gotta get my bat

we don't have batboys here i'll get it

myself and then now it's the coach's

turn double high five hug that kid's as

tall as his coach that kid's taller than

me that kid's tall as a tall kid he's

got a natural pop at this age bottom of

the seventh full count in play off the

pitcher's glove so washington held

oregon scoreless in the top of the

seventh now they're up and they have a

runner on first

bottom of the seventh inning 1-0 is the

count the next pitch hit down the line

and this is where things get confusing

because the um puts his hands up like

it's foul but the first base coach is

waving everybody on as if it was a fair

ball and in play the kid's running home

and then nobody knows what's going on

you have the third base coach

celebrating you have the kids like what

it's foul the umpires are just kind of

standing around

what happened now i want to remind

everybody

just like these kids are not even

amateurs they're kids playing baseball

some won't even play in high school

they're not even like you know high a

prospects like some of these kids like

baseball's just kind of like a hobby in

the summer and their team happens to be

good the umpires are volunteers they're

just

out there volunteering umpiring for free

to keep things in order coach says can

you review that and he says challenge

what

you're challenging it's a fair ball and

he says yes it's a fair ball so the umps

are going to go challenge it

now this is really tricky and the

announcers were

fully aware of how tricky this is

because

they ruled this a fair ball

that's what they said they said that in

live time this was ruled a fair ball so

i think what happened was

watch the

third base coach as soon as he sees it

bounce behind the bag which doesn't

matter it's where it crosses the bag it

doesn't matter where that bat this

bounce afterwards where the ball lands

right there it does not matter

so as soon as the coach sees that watch

the third base coach he turns

so he never sees

this ump

put his hands up to say foul he he is

turning and looking at the home plate

ump

who must have said fair ball

and that um maybe he didn't yell foul

but he yelled fair because he the coach

was under the impression that was a fair

ball

by what he immediately turned and saw

now these umps are talking to whoever

does the replay i don't know if they're

in new york or they're in williamsport

they're in williamsport obviously

the hit

i don't know because watch where it hits

it hits his bat right

and then it hits

like in foul territory off the bat or

right on the chalk it's right down there

in the bottom of your screen and

so for this to be fair

i'm not a physicist but it doesn't make

sense that it would be fair because it

hit on the chalk

or foul

then

it hit

foul

here

that's that definitely hits in foul

territory there now that doesn't matter

because it matters where it crosses the

bag

but it would have to really start in

fair territory for it to cross the bag

otherwise you're kind of going against

physics because it's like a curveball

like hitting on the line then going fair

and then wrapping around i have no idea

if that could happen

but the tricky part is this ump

says foul he raises his hands the coach

he never looks at him he looks at the

home plate ump who must have signaled

fair because again they did say that it

was a it was ruled a fair ball so they

would have to overturn it the other

thing you'd have to think of and let's

go back to the start of the play is

would the left fielder

see that's way down the line did the

left fielder stop running after the ball

because he thought it was ruled foul and

even if

he didn't stop would he have been able

to run there catch it and throw home

if it was a fair ball

i don't think so anyway we i was

watching this live every anyone everyone

that was like well that's a foul ball

but if it

was called fair

it's there's no angle to overturn it

because you don't have an angle down the

line when it's over the bag there you

just kind of have like my my junk

science non-physics thought process of

it it probably isn't gonna curve around

from the two places it hit

so the umpires get off the phone and

they let everybody know

[Applause]

i do like how confident he was because

that's the one thing when you umpire i

um when i was like 14 years old you got

to say things with confidence

but then he makes this face at the end

like hmm

i guess so

and that ends it and that's that's

pretty tough

that's pretty tough

for the team from

oregon

pretty exciting for the team from

washington they're hugging each other

they're kind of looking around like

really

really coach deep breath these guys are

celebrating coach is gonna give him a

little speech chin's in the air

washington on three one two three

washington

chin's in the air washington on three i

think the coach is the only one to say

it chin's in the air washington on three

one two three washington

it's tough tough time to

be cheering

you're pretty distraught so i think it

was only the coach that said washington

again

the umpires are volunteers

they're gonna make a lot of mistakes

like this

just a tough ending for the kids