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- 1Brewers coach stunned by umpire's roof ball call●For Brewers 3B Coach Matt Erickson, the crazy thing about last night’s roof ball is not that it happened. It’s that the
Brewers third base coach Matt Erickson says the remarkable part of Ty France's fly ball striking the roof at American Family Field was not the play itself, but that the home plate umpire described the exact ruling during the lineup card exchange. Erickson says umpires rarely do that. The unusual play and the umpire's proactive explanation are drawing attention from baseball fans.
- 2Erickson predicted controversial roof fly ball in Brewers NLDS opener●'It'll happen tonight': Erickson's prescience foreshadows controversial G1 finish https://www. mlb.com/news/craig-stamme
Milwaukee baseball writer Matt Erickson discussed the ground rules involving the American Family Field roof with Craig Stammen hours before Game 1 of the NLDS, and that conversation foreshadowed the controversial Ty France fly ball that became the talk of the game. The finish is drawing debate among fans about how the roof rules should be applied.