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Taking a closer look
League's new replay system gets first test
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Cleveland Indians catcher Luke Carlin, tags Texas Rangers' Mitch Moreland (18) as home plate umpire David Rackley, right, watches in the fourth inning of a spring training exhibition baseball game, Monday, March 3, 2014, in Surprise , Ariz. Moreland was trying to score on a hit by J.P. Arencibia. - photo by Associated Press
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Challenged for the first time under Major League Baseball's expanded replay system, umpires got it right. The umps went 3 for 3 on Monday as MLB tried out the new format at three spring training games. The first test came at 3:06 p.m. EST in Fort Myers, Fla., after first base umpire Fieldin Culbreth ruled Toronto shortstop Munenori Kawasaki's throw pulled Jared Goedert off the bag in the sixth inning.