Reds manager Bryan Price says he couldn't hear phone ring to ask for replay

After the St. Louis Cardinals' controversial walk-off win against the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday night, the question has been raised as to why Reds manager Bryan Price didn't challenge Yadier Molina's double, which appeared to bounce over the fence for a ground-rule double.

Price said the replay room was calling the phone in the dugout but he couldn't hear it over the roar of the crowd and the fireworks, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. 

Only after someone ran down the tunnel to the clubhouse to yell that it should be challenged, did Price go out onto the field.

Managers have 10 seconds to tell the umpires they are checking video of a call and 30 seconds to officially determine whether they will make a challenge.

Price was out of the team’s dugout just 32 seconds after crew chief Bill Miller signaled Matt Carpenter was safe at home.

However, Miller says the rule is different at the end of a game.

“End of game it’s immediate,” Miller told a pool reporter. “There is not a 10-second, 30-second (limit). They have told me it is immediate. It is an immediate challenge.”

Price said that when he caught up with Miller in the umpires' dressing room, the crew chief told him he had 10 seconds to challenge the play, and Price had failed to challenge in that time.

“In the end, you want to get the call right – I'm not blaming the umpires, I'm not blaming the umpires – but the system of saying 10 seconds? It's not in place in any other point in time, a 10-second rule in which you have to decide you're going to make a decision on if you're going to challenge a play or if you want to stop play, you have more time than that,”

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