Per MLB.com:
If a fair ball gets lodged in the outfield wall padding — or the ivy, in the case of Wrigley Field — it is a ground-rule double.
This doesn't seem to be lodged. There is a drainage ditch there, but this ball was easily playable by Andujar. I get signaling–it's a tough play, better play it safe–but, like, was the ball actually lodged in the wall? To me, it seems more like the ball's momentum just got killed at the wall and it wasn't stuck. I know it's beating a dead horse, we already lost, but I'm annoyed.
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Not stuck. It’s in mud. No idea how it got overturned
watching the play it was clear the ball was not stuck vs just stopped and was easy peasy to just bend over and pick up, which he finally did. poor replay overturn call from the ny office stating it was a double vs an inside the park hr for farmer.
I made a comment on r/baseball saying it obviously wasn’t stuck and had to delete it because I started getting brigaded for some weird reason.
People act like everything on the internet has to be a debate, but sometimes things are just obvious. Like he literally walks over it, signals and then just picks it up. I saw someone who said “it doesn’t matter *how* lodged it is.” Dude, it is 0% lodged. It doesn’t matter if it rolled into the drainage doodad, or if it’s stopped on the grass, or what happens at Wrigley. It is 0% lodged and not obstructed at all.
It also doesn’t really matter…
Just another example of a horrible umpiring crew. Never should have been ruled as “lodged” under the wall.