April 18--DETROIT -- White Sox manager Robin Ventura said Saturday morning the Sox would like to transport back to Friday afternoon's game against the Tigers to challenge a key ninth-inning play that eventually led to a 2-1 Tigers victory.
But instead of rehashing the play, Ventura said the team must focus on Saturday's outing against the Tigers.
"We all missed it," Ventura said. "You move on. Everybody in 20/20 hindsight would like to change it. But, you know, we left that one out there."
The play in question happened when Alexei Ramirez was ruled to miss a tag on the Tigers' Nick Castellanos at second base in the ninth.
One replay appeared to show Ramirez making the tag, but Ventura said the Sox video crew did not view that feed in time, and so he did not challenge the play. By the time the best feed was seen, the Tigers had inserted a pinch runner and play had moved on, Ventura said. The pinch runner then scored the Tigers' winning run.
Among the biggest questions was why Ventura didn't challenge anyway since it was such a key moment in a 1-1 game.
"But you haven't seen anything to change (the call, so) you can go out there and throw one away, too," Ventura said.
A challenge might have been unnecessary if Ramirez had made the tag more aggressively, but Ventura didn't play "what if?" He said it doesn't benefit the players to relive the play.
"There are a lot of things you could have done," Ventura said. "He didn't do it, so now you have to put that behind you and play today instead of sitting around worrying about yesterday."
Sox TV announcers Ken "Hawk" Harrelson and Steve Stone interrupted Ventura's media session to say they also made the wrong call, that Castellanos was safe, on their broadcast.
"I'm the one yesterday that said that he missed it," Harrelson said.
Stone said that they did not have the same slow-motion technology as Detroit's broadcast to properly judge the play.
"Our truck does not have that technology," Stone said. "So although we had the same angle as Detroit did, when they slowed it down, it showed the tag on the guy's foot, before he went out, and all we showed was he missed it."
