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Ump Clearly In The Bag ("didn't affect the play")
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I've seen some terrible calls over the years and always rationalized and coached that those are just part of the game. I've never once felt that an ump was purposely boosting or favoring one team over the other....until this past weekend.
8u game with only one umpire, and yes a silly play as you often see but that doesn't make the calls any less ridiculous and biased. This example was the worst, but there were others in the same game.
Youth baseball two outs and opponent runner on second. Batter singles to left and R2 tries to score but throw to catcher is in plenty of time so runner turns runs back to third with my catcher in pursuit. Rather than run straight to third, R2 runs toward third base dugout trying to evade and juke pursuing catcher. Is just silly how far out of the baseline R2 veered to evade the catcher and the umpire actually chuckled. Eventually the runner did fake out the catcher and ran around him to touch home plate without being tagged.
I called time, walked out to the umpire and said that R2 was way out of the baseline. His answer was "yes, but it didn't affect the play. run counts." And it gets worse. The batter reached second when I called time and was speaking to the ump but third base coach shouted at kid to keep running so that kid crossed the plate during the stoppage and the ump let that run count too.
What a travesty...
Anyhow, excuse the above rant, but here's the question. Are there any rules that don't apply when in the umpire's judgment "it didn't affect the play?" In this case, running out the baseline with fielder in pursuit was the actual play...but is that legit logic in other situations for not enforcing rules ?
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Look, you can argue all day whether he got the call right or wrong, and you'll probably get a bunch of us here who will agree with you. You say it was a tournament. Had you protested the ruling, you p
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Fine, one ump. He had a brain fart. How you made the leap to him actually deliberately benefiting the other team is beyond me. In decades of playing and coaching 2000+ games I have seen ONE cas
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