Quote Originally Posted by MetEdDawg View Post
This board doesn't know a lot about baseball from some of these responses.

Doesn't matter if the player is on the field or if the out had been recorded. Ball is live at all times unless time has been called. All kinds of stuff happens during that time that doesn't impede the game. Time in the game of baseball is granted not given automatically.

Here's what I need to know. I missed it live. Only seen portions of the replay. Did the ump throw a ball to Plumlee and then Plumlee toss the other ball out? If so, did Plumlee have the ball he was trying to get rid of when the ump threw him the ball? If so that's on the ump for having two balls in play and should have gotten his ass chewed out and the league would crush that ump. If not then Plumlee is dumb.

Other issue is players should never toss a ball anywhere than back to home plate. It's a minor procedural thing that you don't think about until it costs you a game. But I need more about what happened before to make an accurate determination of whether or not the ump was in the wrong.
From what I could tell, it looked like time had been called by the baserunners before Plumlee threw the ball away.