AH> AJ> Tarasco misjudged the ball and that's why he would have missed it.  
He 
AH> AJ> needed to jump to catch it and he clearly wasn't getting ready to 
jump. Had
AH> 
AH> Tarasco misjudged nothing, except thinking that he'd actually be
AH> able to catch a routine fly ball in Yankee Stadium without the
AH> interference of a rugrat.    
No.  Tarasco made the same mistake you're making.  He assumed the ball
was going to fall into his glove.  It wasn't.  He's a bad defensive
player.  And that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
There are no routine fly balls in a championship series.  That kind of
lazy thinking is why teams lose.  That same kind of laziness was
evident when Alomar let that ball go through his legs in the final
game of the series.  He wasn't paying attention and he wasn't making the
right play.
The umpires throughout the post season were terrible.  Mistakes were
made in pretty well every game.  But the umpires are terrible during
the season.  Hey, in Toronto a player got a walk on three balls.  But
that umpire still has a job.  If they can't count to four with
accuracy, what can they do?  Still, the umpires were equally bad for
both sides.  The winning team was still the better team.  
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