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"Well, I'm not going to lie -- at the time that play happened no one knew the D-backs' shortstop competition has roots in AFL rule, at least I didn't. Then when they told us about the rule, we Gregorius, Owings were on opposite ends of adventurous were right, so that was good." 2012 championship game By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com To this day, Owings maintains the umpires made the incorrect http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article/ari/arizona call. -diamondbacks-shortstop-competition-has-roots-in-fall- league?ymd=20140312&content_id=69181242&vkey=news_ari "I went and looked a replay later and he didn't leave [third] early so I don't know what happened there," Owings said. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The competition for the D-backs' starting shortstop job between Didi Gregorius and Chris Owings Gregorius, then in the Reds' system, hit .284 that fall and caught will likely go right down to the wire.