Instant Replay In Major League Baseball By Matt Richard

There is almost always a few close calls in every baseball game that some people feel like it could have been called in the other teams favor. These close calls sometimes may even determine the final score of the game. Its no big deal during the regular season because it may be only on have out of the 162 games that a major league baseball team plays. When these close calls come at the end of the post season with everything on the line and everything that an athlete has work so hard for, it is hard to throw it all away because of an unpire that missed a call.

Umpires has to go through 9 inning of baseball every game trying to make the best decisions they can. There are lot of close calls that take place during a baseball game that could go in either teams favor. Fans often feel like the umpires are against a certain team when a call doesn't go their way. Umpires game a hard job and sometimes miss a call and hear about it from the fans. It's lots of times a lose lose situation on a close call because either way the umpire decides to make a call, one team or the other will be mad and start telling the umpires how they feel about it.

The instant replay was brought into major league baseball to help umpires determine home runs. The replay helps determine whether the homerun was fair or foul, interfered with a fan, and if the ball actually let the field of play.

Instant replay will help out the refs to make the right call if they didn't get a good angle to make a confident call. The replay was frowned upon by many baseball organizations because if the long amount of time it takes a baseball game to finish 9 innings. They thought that the replay would take up even more time and make the game last even longer but it ended up not taking as much time as they had thought and there are very few games that it's needed. The instant replay ended up being very beneficial.