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This is only true if there are available bench players, correct? Or am I confusing true NFHS with the modified version we see in tournaments? Either way I took his post as questioning the validity of the catcher re-entering, not what the courtesy runner can or can not do after running.

In my experience, use of courtesy runners are often defined differently depending on the rule set and even local rules. But a courtesy runner is really never considered a substitution, so has no effect on any subsequent substitutions. So removing the courtesy runner from the equation, "can a player hit for the catcher and the catcher re-enter the game?" is going to depend on the rule set. Fed (HS) allows re-entry of starters, so if your catcher was a starter, he would be allowed to re-enter the game one time at any point after being substituted for (hit, field, pinch runner, etc.).

My interpretation of the OP is that F5 caught the pop-up in fair territory and proceeded to raise his throwing hand and jump up and down with both hands raised. He moved from fair territory to the 3B dugout, while being engulfed by teammates. At that point, as he nears the dugout, the umpire calls the game, the fielder lowers his glove and the ball comes out. IMO the fielder traveling at least 30 feet (probably more than twice that from foul line to dugout even if in a right angle) while jumping up and down with the ball in his glove extended overhead demonstrates control. His celebration movements are not a part of the catch. The catch has been made.

My son's team's primary catcher has worn glasses as long as aive known him (u13 through u18) and he wars the goggle-style and tears the helmet off with no issues. Biggest issue is fogging, he's got a stick he rubs on them to prevent it. Usually.

In my experience, U9's in tournaments regularly settle under and catch infield flies. Your point about whether they let it drop is a good one, but of course there are some that will figure that out so I think wherever infield flies are often caught, you have to have the rule.

Never done Babe Ruth rule set but in others the pitcher has not "stepped off", in other words has not "become a fielder" - he's in the act of a legal pickoff move (as long as he steps toward an occupied 1B and completes the throw to F3/1B). He can't fake or stop or not complete the throw, that would be a balk. In order to be able to do those things he has to step off the back of the pitcher's plate, and he is then a fielder and can do anything that a fielder with possession of a live ball can do.

It just looks much tighter to me real time, even knowing what I'm looking for. Obviously the umpire has a better view than the cam, but he doesn't know what's about to happen so doesn't have that bias. https://www.mlb.com/news/brewers-fall-vs-reds-after-freddy-peralta-s-strong-start

Totally agree with both of the bolded. Whichever way you look at it, Yelich should have gone back to the base. Pre- replay etc, things like that and others were called like 'yeah, we know what you meant' but nowadays everything is different.

If that's an attempt, it's the absolute minimum that's required for an attempt. He's taking chop steps slowing down in case he decodes to go, on a slight angle, about 8-10° left of the foul line (of the ~90° required to make a turn to 2B), and his left foot makes one move about 6 inches further towards 2B. I don't think I could call it an attempt if I only saw it in real time.

Really curious about this - did he say that he didn't see it? And then he made the call? Or was he just not in any position to see it and made the call anyway?

How do you know that the umpire didn't see the BR miss first?

I've had people say this to me before, they were confusing it with a ball to the OF where the BR is thrown out at 2B, and is credited with a hit (single). I guess they thought it was an uncaught ball to the OF that made it a hit, not the fact that the BR reached 1B safely.

From umpirebible.com: But my favorite 'hands are part of the bat" explanation comes from "Little League Rules Myths" In bold below...

what I want was one of the two umpires to be in the proper position to make the call. Bad luck for them that 100 fans (from both teams) seated in the stadium behind home plate had the necessary angle. If they're in the right spot an both agree he left early, and video says the opposite, then they just blew the call. It happens. As for wanting or not wanting the call "overruled" - sure, people may get upset at first, but everyone wants the right call to be made, especially in a game like that at a time like that. Many times a call has been changed after a conference, and usually the teams and fans are expecting it to be overturned. Here everyone was expecting it, and it wasn't. Lots of anger and disbelief from the offensive side, lots of big eyes and sheepish looks from the D. With nobody else on base in the tightest of tight games and the starting pitcher (who threw a gem) facing his last batter, all eyes were on the tag up.

Probably overdramatic of me, but to clarify for you, it was a crucial point in a tight game, overruling the call would have sent the defensive team/fans into a frenzy, after the offensive team/fans were just starting to calm down a little.