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America's past time, the great game called baseball. Baseball has been around since the late eighteenth century. It has evolved quite a bit since then. The equipment to the game itself has changed. For instance, more protective helmets and better engineered bats are being used. Those however are not the biggest changes in baseball. The biggest change in baseball is without a doubt the introduction of instant replay. Currently baseball uses instant replay only to review homeruns. Much more can come out of instant replay besides just reviewing homeruns. The MLB needs to expand the uses of instant replay. Umpire mistakes can be costly, they can cause teams to lose and even prevent a record from being broken. With the expansion of instant replay, mistakes by umpires can be eliminated, and change the game of baseball for the better.
Baseball like other sports such as, football and soccer use umpires or referees to regulate the rules. The number of umpires used in a game depends upon the type of game, regular season or post-season game. For regular season games, four umpires are used. For playoff games and the World Series, six umpires are used. During regular season games there is an umpire located behind the plate, first base, second base, and third base. Games conducted during the post season umpires are located in the same place, but two additional umpires are placed on the foul lines of the baseball field. Umpires essentially work as a team to make the best call possible. There is chief umpire and field umpires. The chief umpire is located behind home plate. He or she is in charge of calling balls and strikes, and also determining whether a running is out at the plate. The remaining umpires are field umpires. They are in charge o...

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...replay will be effective. As long as coaches are given a set amount of challenges, the length of the game will not be extended too much. Also if only certain plays are made reviewable, mangers and umpires will have a common ground, which can lead to the reduction of ejections. Umpires not seeing plays clearly have become a common occurrence. Since umpires cannot see plays clearly, umpires make bad calls, which turn out to be costly. The results of bad calls made by umpires are seen in the 1985 World Series, and the almost perfect game pitched by Armando Galarragas. The Royals won, when the Cardinals should have won, and Armando should have pitched a perfect game, but did not. If horrible calls made by umpires could be eliminated by just expanding the uses of instant replay, fans all around the league should join the bandwagon and help push for change in the MLB.

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