Replay-Ville

Citi Field must be the quirkiest MLB Park in existence. For two evenings, Video Review has been used by MLB Umpires to determine whether or not home runs were hit:

On Monday Evening, Gary Sheffield clocked a line drive above the left center field line, above the 16 Foot Wall. There is a fence, recessed by about 1 foot. Upon video review, it showed that the ball was above the line and over that wall;

This evening, the Pepsi Porch, with a nod to both Tiger Stadium and the Polo Grounds, was the location of another video review. Mets 1st Baseman Dan Murphy, hit a ball into the area by Modell's Corner, above it. The ball stuck something and dropped straight down, where it was fielded by Adam Dunn;

As Warner Wolf would say, "Let's Go To The Videotape", it was time for another "Video Review". Umpires have views of two television feeds, in this case, both M A S N and S N Y, both fed to the Video Review Room on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan;

In the Murphy Homer, the ball came up to the Subway Sign on the Pepsi Porch & dropped suddenly, as if it clipped something, ever so-slightly. Then the emerging Umpires gave the Homer Sign;

With the high walls, fencing, asymmetric distances and a section hanging over Right Field, as if in tribute to Tiger Stadium and the Polo Grounds, Citi Field has to be the Quirkiest Park, where one has to earn Homers or have them "Video-Reviewed";

There was no doubt when Dunn hit a ball to RCF, but cracking his homer to the Rear Of The Replica of the Hells Gate Bridge-almost 500 Feet;

Strange how Santana BB'd 6 but K'd 11;

The NY Mets have been involved in 4 Replays in 6 Games;

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