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Jimurray

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  1. It's a motivational thing and when done well very impressive. 3 fungo coaches, 3 catchers and 30 guys on the field knowing where to throw. A youtube video might exist. Regarding the PRs or CRs, seen a bunch of track guys subbed. Seen a bunch of track guys picked off doing stupid baserunning tricks.
  2. I pity you NCAA guys that have to apply this video with a judgement of the minute possibilty of the step being towards home, thus the second step in the delivery making it an illegal pitch. Except it seems the video is there because most NCAA umpires are not focusing on the minute direction of the stutter step and not calling an illegal pitch. This reminds me of the FED hand to the mouth on the rubber balk, written in stone and never to be changed. NCAA can not back off this interp. Egos would be damaged. Meanwhile as you watch the videos the rank and file haven't called such violations. Caution: NCAA umpires should not comment on this thread. You know why.
  3. And some in FED would say they got it right other than implementing the penalty wrong.
  4. They kicked it. If you think they got the judgement of intent right they kicked old 7.08(b) where you call the runner and the batter out. If you think Onora didn't know the rule he's had a few kicks in his career and he kicked this one for lack of intent. I don't think FED calls two out but their wording allows some of our cohorts to require some effort to get out of the way of the fielder. I don't.
  5. A few misconceptions in this thread and I'll only address this one as @noumpere is taking care of the rest. The bag is protection for getting hit by an IFF and unintentionally hindering a fielder fielding a batted ball. When off the bag MLB protects the runner from INT with a batted ball if the ball went thru or by the fielder and no other fielder had a play on it. Thru or by means within reach of the fielder. A runner hit by a batted ball going in the gap past drawn in infielders would be out for INT. NFHS protects a runner behind a fielder if the batted ball passed that fielder and the umpire judges no other fielder had a play on the ball. A crutch has existed in NFHS called "string theory". If the runner is behind a string stretched between fielders there is no INT
  6. And take the heat on social media as the rule writers and interpreters do not have your back with any social media supporting your implementation of the rule. Thus all of you NCAA/NJCAA/NAIA umps should have your group tell the conference it's their job to take care of that stuff. I know, you are not going to go on strike and give up that paycheck.
  7. I had a wild occurrence quite a few years ago posted on UE. Somewhere in the thread was a confirmation that FED only cared about defensive subs being announced before they were on defence. But I don't recall a definition of projected subs in FED and if a coach wanted to give you a change to all 9 lineups while you were counting 5 pitches he could do it. You, of course would have left your three balls in the batters box while you took the subs. IN NCAA and OBR the sub is in when the coach reports it. By rule in FED the sub is in when the umpire announces it and he can announce it at the time it is told to him. As the caseplay shows you can't sub for a player who has not been in the game yet.
  8. All codes agree on base touches with a batted ball. 1B, forced bases, winning run. So 90' for each runner and we are out of there, except NCAA wants the umpires to do the coaches and conferences jobs and birddog stuff.
  9. It's a base but it's untouchable: "A BASE is one of four points which must be touched by a runner in order to score a run; more usually applied to the canvas bags and the rubber plate which mark the base points."
  10. I think NCAA would agree with you but MiLB and MLB umps would not
  11. It is a rule in NCAA. It's an interp in OBR and NFHS.
  12. Randy Bruns in NCAA doesn't like it. Calls it an alteration.
  13. You do need two answers. When would the runner be out? When he touched or passed HP on the way back. Can you be called for obstructing a runner retreating to the plate? No, unless there was intent.
  14. That's not the question by rule in OBR but if they want to make the it question they can live with it. Except they had a "meathook" interp a few seasons ago that proved unworkable for "on the transfer" and they changed it midseason. They might change this one also. In the OP the fielder was not blocking anything until he moved to glove the throw and that reach required a half step in front of the base.
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