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Farrell: 'Human element' alters replay'
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball's replay system was designed to mitigate the human element in umpiring decisions. Instead, after coming out on the wrong side of replay calls in each of the last two games, the human element is surfacing in a different, troubling form, Red Sox manager John Farrell said Sunday night.
"It's hard to have any faith in the system,'' Farrell said after Boston's 3-2 loss to the New York Yankees.
Farrell became the first manager in the major leagues to be ejected for disputing a play that was reviewed on replay after umpires reversed their call on what would have been an inning-ending double play in the fourth inning. Once the call was reversed, the Yankees were credited with a run that would not have counted had the original call stood.
That run ultimately proved to be the margin of victory for the Yankees....
http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/10779701/boston-red-sox-manager-john-farrell-rips-replay-system
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