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The dumbest argument I've heard so far is that the pitch to Dye was ball 4 anyway so the bad call really doesn't matter. No, it wasn't ball 4 under any standard. It couldn't have been ball 4 because the ball hit the bat. When the ball hits the bat and goes into foul territory it is by rule a foul ball. It would have been ball 4 if Dye hadn't started to swing and gotten his bat in the way, but that's not what happened.
Let's face facts. The ump blew the call and it helped the White Sox win the game. As King points out, we'll never know whether they would have won without the call, and there were other close calls that went the other way so you can't say the Sox didn't deserve to win or anything like that. But still the call stunk and, most importantly, it was not ball 4.
