The United States Women’s Softball team won the gold medal in Atlanta’s 1996
Olympic games. They lost only one game. In the fifth inning against
Australia, Danielle Tyler hit a home run over the center-field fence. When
she was greeted by a swarm of well-wishing teammates at home plate she let
the excitement distract her focus and she did not STEP ON home plate. When
all of the yelling subsided, the Australian team quietly appealed to the
umpire who dramatically called Tyler out. Rather than scoring a run, Tyler’s
blast over the fence netted her team an out. As it ended up,had she stepped
on home plate, her team would have won 1-0. Instead, after seven innings of
regulation
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