Brewers catcher Jason Kendall may have summed up the deciding play in Friday night's 5-2 Brewers loss to Arizona the best, calling Tony Clark's pinch-hit double in the eighth inning "the beauty of baseball, and the pain."

At first glance, it looked like the Brewers got a break when Clark's ball landed just millimeters into foul territory. Umpire Brian Gorman, though, saw things differently.

Gorman was working third base Friday night and ruled that Clark's ball was, in fact, fair. His decision gave Clark an two-double that put the Diamondbacks ahead, 4-2 in the eighth inning of Milwaukee's 5-2 loss.

Brewers manager Ken Macha quickly emerged from the dugout to argue the play. Kendall and third baseman Bill Hall were adamant that the ball was foul. He said that Gorman told him that the ball did, in fact, hit the line.

"I hadn't seen the replay,"Macha said in his post-game press conference. "I just know by the reaction of Jason and Billy – they were on the line – were jumping up and down."

After the game, Gorman, a 17-year veteran umpire, reviewed the play extensively in the umpires' locker room, focusing closely on replays and zooming in on the area where the ball struck dirt. The video, he said, backed up his belief that the ball, though ever so slightly, grazed the foul line.

"If any part of the ball hits any part of the line, it’s fair," Gorman said Doesn't it look like it hit some of the line?That's about as close as you can get to the line and just nick it. But any part of the line is fair."

Unlike the other major sports, baseball does not use instant replay unless the play in question involved a home run. The National Football League uses replay extensively while the National Basketball Association allows its officials to review foot placement on three-point plays and time left on the clock for buzzer-beaters. The National Hockey League also employs limited forms of replay.

Baseball could easily avoid these situations by expanding its use of replay, but Macha says he has no interest in such technology.

"He said the ball hit the line," Macha said, "I don't like instant replay on any calls. I'm not into the rules committee, either. My job is to manage this team and I'm trying to do that."

Macha wouldn't blame Gorman for the loss – just the Brewers' second in their last 10 games. He pointed to the two-out walk issued by Carlos Villanueva earlier in the inning that sparked the Arizona rally. Todd Coffey, who came on in relief of Villanueva and gave up the hit to Clark also was diplomatic in his assessment.

"The umpire called it a fair ball so it's a fair ball," Coffey said. "Regardless of what I or anybody else saw, he called it a fair ball and I didn't get my job done tonight."

Without extensive replay, there was little for Macha to argue about. Gorman, who did have access -- though after the game's conclusion -- was unlikely to change his mind and until baseball changes its stance, such plays are going to happen more often than not.

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