{"id":43855,"date":"2022-08-13T02:41:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T02:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/little-league-world-series-umpiring-controversy-in-game-between-oregon-and-washington\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T02:41:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T02:41:47","slug":"little-league-world-series-umpiring-controversy-in-game-between-oregon-and-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/little-league-world-series-umpiring-controversy-in-game-between-oregon-and-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Little League World Series umpiring controversy in game between Oregon and Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There was controversy between Oregon and Washington in the Little League World Series Northwest Regional Final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied 2-2 in extra innings and a runner on first, a Washington player hit a line drive down the third-base line that was initially called a foul ball by the third-base umpire.  The home plate umpire, however, called the ball fair and play never stopped.  The runner from first kept running as he was waved home by Washington&#8217;s third-base coach and scored the winning run.<\/p>\n<p>The play was then reviewed and it turned out the ball was fair, giving Washington a 3-2 over Oregon to advance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Washington advances to the Little League World Series because umpires say they called fair even though there was a foul ball signaled <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rsFURks1Y5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rsFURks1Y5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JomboyMedia\/status\/1557952154526154753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>The third-base umpire initially called the hit a foul.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ESPN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-191533.png?resize=609%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Despite the foul call, Washington base coaches encouraged the baserunner to go home.\" class=\"wp-image-23444801\" width=\"609\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-191533.png?w=305 304w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-12-191533.png 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Despite the foul call, Washington base coaches encouraged the baserunner to go home.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ESPN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Oregon coach, meanwhile, expressed his frustration to the home plate umpire, with the Oregon players having stopped playing believing the ball was foul.<\/p>\n<p>Washington will play in the Little League World Series next Wednesday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was controversy between Oregon and Washington in the Little League World Series Northwest Regional Final on Thursday. With the game tied 2-2 in extra innings and a runner on first, a Washington player hit a line drive down the third-base line that was initially called a foul ball by the third-base umpire. The home &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/little-league-world-series-umpiring-controversy-in-game-between-oregon-and-washington\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little League World Series umpiring controversy in game between Oregon and Washington<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[17258,661,7724,307,17259,8471],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38104,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mets-piling-up-wins-by-playing-old-school-gritty-baseball\/","url_meta":{"origin":43855,"position":0},"title":"Mets piling up wins by playing old-school gritty baseball","date":"August 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"You're telling me that Buck Showalter couldn't get back into a major league dugout for three years because teams' owners and new-age front office personnel thought the old school manager would demand too much authority? 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