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Catcher's Interference reversal
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Guest Confused and Frustrated
This happened the other day during a 12u game. We had bases loaded with two outs, down by one, and batter had 2-2 count on him. Runner on third breaks to home, batter swings, catcher's mitt comes off and misses ball. The runner at third crosses plate, batter gets to first before home plate umpire calls time to "figure out" what all has happened. At this point he calls catcher's interference and awards the batter to first, all runners advance and run scores. Of course at this point, the other team's coaches lose it and start arguing call. Umpire changes his mind and calls it a foul ball. His quote to our coach was that it was a foul ball, that it didn't matter that the batter hit the catcher's mitt. At this point our coach loses it. The home plate umpire asks for help from the field umpire, they come back and say catcher's interference. Go back to other team losing it and they go get the tournament director. I specifically had asked for the UIC. The director came out and told the umpires to go talk it out. They came back and said foul ball.
All that said, my question is that is this not a judgement call? And does the field umpire truly have any say in this since he could not hear anything?
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grayhawk
I don’t know what really happened, but I do know that nobody should be “losing it.” It’s become so common that everyone seems to think it’s okay. It’s not.
noumpere
Yes, the field ump has a say. IF the bat hit the mitt, then it (likely) was CI, whether the bat hit the ball. If the bat did not hit the mitt but hit the ball foul, it was a foul ball. If the bat h
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