NCAA Softball Regional - Cajuns vs Tigers

[Duggie35]

Well, we lost fair and square.. Thats all I wanted and for the game not to be decided by weather. Its tough but onward to baseball tourney

Exactly! 👍

[Frenchie35]

Yep, I do not think it was even close.

The ball was hit down the left field line. You have the foul pole and the screen webbing on the inside of the pole. the ball trajectory was on the outside of the pole (when it left the playing field) and hooked right and landed about three feet to the right of the pole. When the ball left the playing field it was foul. Fair when it hit the ground on the hill.......that's a foul ball anywhere except in tiger park.

[Cajun90]

Hats off to LSU because they were the better team. I don't want to argue the HR too much more, but this is pretty clear that it was foul. The pics are in reverse order. The 2nd one shows it behind the foul pole curving around the foul side:

A foul in three pictures. Freeze frames CLEARLY show the ball hooked the left, outside part of foul pole. They blew this horribly. pic.twitter.com/fHzbQLI7r2

— Travis Webb (@travisjwebb) May 22, 2017

A couple of points to make. One - how many times has anyone seen a right handed batter have a ball hook left to right like what is being proposed? Not that it can't happen but to me the pictures tell the story. Travis has the order wrong unless we now have balls defying the law of gravity.

If you look at the pictures posted by Travis you will note the number 152. Look closely and you can see a yellow spot clearly behind the foul pole screen. Height wise it is even with the number 2 on the video. The other picture shows it on the outside of the foul pole and BELOW the number 2 on the video. Gravity doesn't lie. Ball moved right to left (as you would expect) and hooked behind the foul pole. Unless you think the ball was still on an upward trajectory at that point.

[California Cajun]

Stevie P said he had a restricted view in the broadcast booth and couldn't say for sure. Seems to me most people are conceding that it is a home run.

[Just1More]

Stevie P said he had a restricted view in the broadcast booth and couldn't say for sure. Seems to me most people are conceding that it is a home run.

Kelli Martinez is the only on the scene eyewitness I trust. Unless her pursuit and eventual need to visually detect the wall prevented her from eyeballing the path of the ball near that pole... I believe she had a bird's eye view. Of the "local witnesses"... I trust only her account.

[mahtoo]

I recorded the KATC news broadcast this evening. Included was a replay of the "home run". That replay was much clearer than any others I've seen today. IMO, slow motion replay shows it was a foul ball. No longer any doubt in my mind, not that it matters.

Congratulations to our team on a great season.

[McNeese72]

That's the camera located behind the UL dugout just past 1st base.

Nope. I watched the replay and the camera angle on ESPN was from the left side of home plate. And that's where it looked like the screen captures posted here earlier came from the ESPN video.

And it is just about impossible for a right handed batter to slice a ball down the left field line. They are going to hook it.

Doc

[wcd35]

Nope. I watched the replay and the camera angle on ESPN was from the left side of home plate. And that's where it looked like the screen captures posted here earlier came from the ESPN video.

And it is just about impossible for a right handed batter to slice a ball down the left field line. They are going to hook it.

Doc

These are from Travis Webb with KATC. He was behind the UL dugout. It was pretty clear on replay as his camera was much more zoomed in than ESPN's from the grandstand area

[31Ragin97]

Seems it would be better if the line on the fence was even with the pole, not important for this play, but odd set up...

P.s.interested in knowing when gravity started affecting left to right either way?

[31Ragin97]

In video and older pictures of stadium,line does look even

[Ragin4U]

P.s.interested in knowing when gravity started affecting left to right either way?

The Magnus Effect

[31Ragin97]

The guy with jeans was moving out of way, doesnt seem like he needed to,lol. Interesting attire to wear to softball nonetheless