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Fair or foul? Showalter hasn't forgotten

Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter, left, argues a

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SARASOTA, Fla. -- Another inch or two, and maybe the month of October would have turned out differently for the Orioles.

Instead, Nate McLouth’s potential game-tying home run in the sixth inning of ALDS Game 5 was ruled barely foul – the replay couldn’t prove it nicked the foul poles -- Baltimore lost, and Buck Showalter got to spend the last four months wondering what might have been.

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