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Texas center fielder Josh Hamilton homered in the second, then led off the fourth with an opposite-field shot that sailed over the 14-foot fence in left and ricocheted back into play. Second base umpire Doug Eddings signaled that the ball was still in play and Hamilton stopped with a double. "It should have been a home run," crew chief Dana DeMuth said after watching a postgame replay. "If (Eddings) had any doubt in his mind, all he has to do is come to me and we're going to video. That's how sure he was on it," DeMuth said. "A couple of innings later there were a few players, even Baltimore players, that said it was a home run. We had the opportunity to go in and look and I did not do it. It's bad judgment by me but I have to have trust in the crew." |
After the Rangers defeated the Orioles 4-3 on a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning, umpires acknowledged that they missed a call much earlier in the game.