Fair or foul? You make the call on Salvador Perez’s ball down the line

Royals manager Ned Yost has often talked of the difficulty of winning Major League Baseball games.

Sometimes, it can be a game of inches.

To wit: In the Royals’ 1-0 loss at Seattle on Friday, Eric Hosmer was on second base with two outs in the ninth inning. Salvador Perez laced a ball down the third-base line for what seemed to be a game-tying double.

However, third-base umpire Clint Fagan called the ball foul.

Shaun Newkirk tweeted this look at the play:

Perez later flied out to deep center to end the game. The Royals thought the ball down the line was fair as you can read in Rustin Dodd’s game story.