MLK79
Elite Drama Queen
If they had used line technology, they would've gotten the answer much sooner. They made a guess about that one and they got it wrong.The call was made by line technology. The thing to keep in mind is that just because you can see grass between the ball and the line doesn't mean it's out of play. The ball is round. There is a thin imaginary plane that extends from the outermost edge of the lines vertically up into space. Once the entire ball -- not just the part that's touching the ground -- passes through the imaginary plane, it's out of bounds.