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Around Baseball: Yankees Protest Is Denied
By Administrator | June 23, 2009
The NY Yankees lost to the Florida Marlins on the field on Sunday, 6-5… after the game, the Yankees went whining to the league office to protest the result. What you can’t win ON the field you can try to win in the major league offices.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, Florida manager Fredi Gonzalez removed LF Chris Coghlan from the game in a double-switch. OF Alejandro De Aza pinch-hit for P Renyel Pinto and was supposed to take over in left in the top of the eighth inning — but he never ran on the field.
Instead, Coghlan went back out onto the field.
After P Leo Nunez threw the first pitch, Yankees manager Joe Girardi protested. The Yankees trailed 6-3 at the time.
Coghlan was removed and Jeremy Hermida took over in left field. Girardi thought Nunez should have been ruled out of the game.
Today, Major League Baseball president Bob DuPuy denied the Yankees protest.
Earlier this afternoon, Gonzalez said he was relieved to learn the protest had been denied: “For me, it wasn’t something you could protest but it’s embarrassing, big-time embarrassing… By rule, Nunez was never out of the game, the only question was, put the right guy out there and where does he hit. That’s it”.
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