Tough Call (and probably right...)

Yesterday at Oriole Park Matt Joyce hit a liner down the right field line that hit at the base of the foul pole. The umpire's original call was ground rule double. O's manager Buck Showalter popped out to say he thought the ball was foul. Ray's manager Joe Madden was betting it was fair, and thus a home run. After reviewing the tape, the umps granted Joyce a dinger because the ball did hit the base of the foul pole. It took about ten minutes to come to the decision.

Check out this video: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=27259781&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_27259781&v=3

I watched all this from the couch. I could watch this piece of tape a thousand times and still not really see well what's happening. I think the umpires get this right, even though I was pulling for the Orioles.