Instant replay review has been around ever since the NFL instituted it in 1986, but it wasn’t until 2008 that baseball got on board and allowed teams to request a video review of controversial calls. Now virtually every major sport has some sort of video replay system to review controversial calls, but that has not eliminated the controversies, as evidenced by the ending of Sunday’s Royals/White Sox game.
In the bottom of the ninth of a tied game, a Wade Davis wild pitch allowed Jose Abreu to make a break for home. Cam Gallagher grabbed the ball and lunged towards home to tag Abreu, but home plate umpire Edwin Moscoso ruled he was safe.