Is there really chatter about plunking someone over Sano?? Come on, we're better than that. As for the situation with Dozier at the plate, as long as the catcher has the ball, he can do whatever he has to do to block the plate. If he's waiting for the throw to come in, he has to give a clear sliding/running lane to the plate. Gone are the days of being able to sneak your leg into the lane to block off the plate before he has possession. Since the throw led Nicholas into the basepath, he's entitled to go get the ball and since it made him jump, he doesn't have much control over where he comes down. So everything that happened there was legal and it just so happened that Dozier might have gotten a spike. That's the breaks sometimes.