It’s unlucky that the second baseman’s brand of unassuming tough work has gone out of fashion,but that wont keep many outside the Big Apple from admiring himBy now Chase Utley’s takeout slide that broke Ruben Tejada’s leg has been dissected, analyzed and deconstructed with an intensity commonly associated with the Zapruder film. He’s since been suspended by Major League Baseball for two games for a play that was deemed legal by the umpire on the field and endorsed in the commentary booth by Cal Ripken, or a corridor of Fame shortstop who’s been involved in hundreds of similar plays and has forgotten more approximately baseball than you or I will ever know.It was the same uncertain but legal play Utley has been on the giving and receiving cessation of countless times during a 13-year career and one that’s been a part of baseball long before that. There was no intention to injure Tejada and Utley has been honest approximately his objective: to ensure the double play wasn’t turned and to place the onus on the umpire to call him out for interference. Which he didn’t. Anybody who’s observed Utley since his major league debut knows he wouldn’t intentionally hurt an opponent,just as they know he will effect anything within the rules to win.
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Source: theguardian.com