TV Camera Moved Back Slightly At World Series

RONALD BLUM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Baseball moved the right-field TV camera made famous by Alex Rodriguez in Game 3 of the World Series.

A day after A-Rod's drive to right field hit the camera overhanging the fence at Citizens Bank Park, Major League Baseball and the Fox network tried to make sure it wouldn't happen again.

"As a precaution, we've moved the right-field foul pole camera back slightly so that the edge of the lens is completely in line with the top of the wall," Fox spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said Sunday before Game 4.

Jimmie Lee Solomon, baseball's executive vice president for operations, said the camera was never supposed to hang over the fence.

"Get it back and keep it back," he said MLB told Fox.

A few minutes before the first pitch, the cameraman pulled back his position slightly to keep the front of the lens close to being flush with the fence.

Rodriguez originally was given a double in the fourth inning of Game 3, but after a video review was awarded a two-run homer. It was the first video review by umpires in World Series history.