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Umpire Odds & Ends: Umpire Injury

Apr 15, 2011 20:55

Crew Chief Jerry Layne (24) was injured in the Top of the 2nd inning with one on and no outs of the Cubs-Rockies game. Layne was the 1B umpire for the opener of the series when a Carlos Pena line drive struck him in the lower leg. He stayed on the ground for a few minutes while being assisted by Rockies' trainers. Eventually, Layne was able to walk ( Read more... )

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anonymous April 17 2011, 00:27:49 UTC

That hurts..Hope Jerry returns soon..

MLB sent Jerry Meals to be the 4th man on this crew..

jeruhmed April 17 2011, 01:56:28 UTC

Corrected! Thank you :)

anonymous April 17 2011, 03:24:02 UTC

mlb pulled jerry meals from arizona series and put him in colorado
angel campos replaced him in arizona
why not send campos to colorado

just wondering

Campos, Meals anonymous April 17 2011, 11:45:49 UTC

Because There was already a MILB ump, Vic Carapazza umpiring on the Layne crew, and theynonly want one at a time.

anonymous April 17 2011, 14:02:00 UTC

Although Campos is a good umpire, and IMO, should have gotten one of the fulltime slots this year, there is no way MLB sends what is technically a "fill in" guy to THAT crew...think about it, you would have Campos, Wendelstedt, Davidson, and Knight, a first year hire. You hafta have one "adult" on the crew, even if it is Meals....I'm just sayin'.

anonymous April 17 2011, 14:15:12 UTC

Probably so they can have another #2 available to break up the arguments when Bob and/or pulls their shenanigans

OMG Hunter and Balkin' bob anonymous April 17 2011, 04:26:45 UTC

THe two of them could mess up a wet dream... but alone on the bases together.. YIKES.. get well Jerry.. Even though you're not much better.

anonymous April 17 2011, 14:30:32 UTC

Jerry Meals could be training for the next round of crew chief promotions. Somehow I don't think they would entrust those duties to Davidson or Hunter.

-RingTail

dannj316 April 17 2011, 16:32:53 UTC

There could be some more crew chief openings coming up. Joe West and Derryl Cousins have 33 and 32 years in respectively, so it's getting to be about that time for them.

But I would think you would see guys like Wally Bell, Angel Hernandez, Larry Vanover, even Brian O'Nora, or Ted Barrett considered before you would see Jerry Meals. And that's assuming that Jim Joyce continues to not want it, which it doesn't seem like he does, for whatever reason.

a real test anonymous April 17 2011, 23:13:05 UTC

Yeah, but if a rookie could somehow manage to get through a series carrying Wendlestadt AND Davidson without the roof falling on him too, the kid will make one hell of an umpire.

Re: a real test anonymous April 18 2011, 18:17:20 UTC

Just imagine if Brian Runge was still on that crew..Yikes!