By STEPHEN HAWKINS
AP Sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon says there is plenty of new technology that could be used for more replay in baseball. He expects extensive discussion about the issue after this season.
"That's just the way the world works," Maddon said Saturday before Game 3 of the division series against Texas. "Things are invented, there is new technology that can help this process and also be expeditious in regards to the way it's utilized."
Maddon was ejected in Game 2 after Michael Young hit a three-run homer, one pitch after umpires ruled that Young checked his swing for a ball instead of an inning-ending third strike. Replays showed he had likely gone too far, and Young has said he wouldn't have argued had he been called out.
There have been issues in other playoff games this week where expanded use of replay might have changed calls. Replay is used now only to review potential home runs.
"Really what's been going on cries for more meetings, more review in the offseason to try to come up with a system that is amenable to both sides," Maddon said. "I believe as we move down the road, we have a lot of smart people involved here, that all of this technology is going to be utilized in the proper way. I think it's going to be done slowly, which I think is the right way to do it. I don't think you should jump in both feet and go crazy about it."
Maddon recalls when people thought he was strange for using a computer in the 1990s, long before it was commonplace in baseball.
"People looked at me as if I had two heads for using a computer," he said. "And you look at the information going on, all the data prior to each game, each series, it is incredible. And hard-liners, old-school guys that frowned upon that stuff in the early '90s, are using it quite frequently and to their advantage."
There have been several questionable calls this postseason.
Atlanta manager Bobby Cox was ejected from Game 2 of the NL division series Friday night when Alex Gonzalez was called out on a close play. The throw beat Gonzalez, but replays showed that San Francisco first baseman Aubrey Huff's foot might have been pulled off the bag.
That call was made by the same umpire who in Game 1 called Giants rookie Buster Posey safe on a stolen base when replays showed he was out. Posey later scored the only run of that game.
In Game 2 of the other AL division series, Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire was tossed after Lance Berkman's go-ahead double for the New York Yankees one pitch after it appeared he had taken a third strike.
That's three managers ejected in eight playoff games after no manager had been tossed in the postseason since 2005.
The Rangers got another break in Game 1 when plate umpire Tim Welke ruled Cliff Lee's first-inning pitch to Rays slugger Carlos Pena hit the knob of the bat for a foul tip. Replays indicated the pitch hit nothing, and Pena then struck out with the bases loaded.
Received 10/09/10 04:26 pm ET
