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The home plate umpire's name is Kulpa. He admitted his "mea culpa" after the game. Which always strikes me as strange; we spend millions of dollars for replay technology to determine whether a fly ball hits the foul line or not, but an umpire's call, making an obvious mistake, is irreversible.
In which case, I was thinking that Conforto should be honest and admit what he did. Instead, he said "I didn’t realize my elbow was so far out there. With two strikes, I went into battle mode and I tend to lean over the plate when I get into battle mode."
But then again, if he merely said "Yeah, I stuck my elbow out there in order to get a HBP because lately I haven't been able to do much else," it would make matters worse in a number of ways.
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- Bru
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