Poor calling by refs Newton Subdivision SF2 M2

[mott]

Originally Posted by JeffB

To be completely fair, they got hung up on a boulder, then struggled to cross a defense, and finally tried to use the secret passage to get back.

Even if they had made it, you'd have lost points for them using the secret passage.

Do you not think that it's entirely possible they got hung up on that boulder BECAUSE they couldn't use the field space being occupied by the damaged field element to make their way back to their batter??? They certainly knew trying to just drive over that Divider wall would be impossible so they had little choice but to take the route over the boulder.

Then, after struggling with that initial situation, following events are irrelevant as they likely wouldn't have played out in that same way had they not lost all the time fighting with the initial boulder.

I see this just like many sporting events where events occurring after some "critical play" in a game could NEVER be assumed to have occurred in the same way had that initial "critical play" turned out differently.

With even a few extra seconds, 1477 surely wouldn't have felt the need to make a break through the secret passage to get back to the batter.

Field Faults were called throughout the season for MUCH less impactful Outerworks failures...I don't see why one wasn't called here.