And in true MLB fashion, the League backed them up. Lame as hell, and what's worse, the sportscasters all let it go out of fear of League reprisals.
The Atlanta Braves had 2 men on base, 1 out. Their next batter punched a high fly ball into shallow left field, the Cards Shortstop went way off the cutout, he couldn't make the catch, the left fielder backed off and the ball hit the ground. Almost simultaneously, the 3rd base Umpire threw up his hand and called the "infield fly rule". The runner is automatically out. Instead of scoring to possibly tie the game, They now had 2 outs and the next guy up struck out.
The Atlanta crowd went nuts, as you can imagine, near riot actually.
By Baseballs own definition, the infield is the space within the baselines. By any other authority, it's either that, or the back edge of the cutout. This mess happened a full 30 ft on the outfield grass. There is no way in hell the infield fly rule should have been called, and after the fact, the umps knew it.
Joe Torre was the League rep on site, his response was to not overturn it because it was a "judgment call". Right, a judgement call that ran contrary to Baseballs own rules.
An Umpires job is to call the game fairly, enforce the rules of the game, and to not influence the outcome of the game. This ump scored 0 on all 3.
Somebody should check his bank account.