Tigers fans fuming after video replay overturns go-ahead run vs. Dodgers

For a few minutes on Friday night, Manuel Margot looked like he'd already become a Detroit Tigers hero just two games into his career with Detroit.

With the Tigers trailing by a run in the ninth inning, Margot rifled a ball to left field to score Ryan Kreidler from second base. That alone was pretty heroic.

Then a ball driven to right field gave Margot a chance to do even more. Going from first to home with two outs, you knew the play at the plate was going to be close. The relay from Dodgers second baseman found catche Austin Barnes' mitt ahead of Margot's arrival, but Margot appeared to leap over the stabbing tag from Barnes and touch home plate to put the Tigers up 4-3.

He was called safe by home plate umpire John Tumpane.

That is, until the play went to video review in New York.

We've often been told that if there isn't enough evidence to overturn a call, the live call on the field should stand.

Angle after angle showed the play was close. Did Barnes manage to touch Margot's cleat before Margot touched home plate? The replay went back, then forward, then back, then forward, from different angles on the television broadcast with no conclusion possible.

If New York had a better view, they weren't sharing.

The call came in from New York: the call on the field was overturned. The game would go to the bottom of the ninth tied at 3-3.

It's hard to see that as a just outcome when the replay was just not clear evidence of anything and that is the kind of call that you will always see stand with whatever the umps on the field called.

A frustrating outcome for the Tigers and fans both, ultimately.

Even though the Tigers eventually went up 5-3 in the 10th inning on a Dillon Dingler triple, the Dodgers responded and walked off with an 8-5 victory on Mookie Betts' second home run of the game.