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PBUC's Umpire Manual (at least my 2013 edition) has it in section 2.10 Positions Prior To Start Of Game and 2.11 Position Between Innings. It covers U3 mirroring the same position in short LF as well.

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At the high school level has your association ever surveyed the coaches to get their feedback as to what they would like to see improved upon by the umpires officiating their games? Good or bad idea?

We discussed this play at the Wendelstedt SoCal Classic over the weekend, and it occurred to me that we can easily compartmentalize this play to make it easier to call on the field. Here is the play: Batter pops up into the infield near the foul line. A runner (R1 or R3 - doesn't matter) interferes with the fielder attempting to make the catch. I don't want to introduce willful and deliberate interference into this first post, but we can discuss it if there are questions. We have 4 possible situations: 1. IFF is not possible (situation doesn't warrant it), batted ball is fair. 2. IFF is not possible (situation doesn't warrant it), batted ball is foul (caught or not). 3. IFF, batted ball is fair. 4. IFF, batted ball is foul (caught or not). In ALL cases, the runner who interferes is OUT. There are no exceptions. Now, how we treat the batter-runner for each of the 4 situations will be as follows: 1. Batter-runner is awarded first. 2. Return batter-runner to bat. Add a strike to the count unless there are already 2 strikes. 3. Batter-runner is out on the IFF. 4. Return batter-runner to bat. Add a strike to the count unless there are already 2 strikes. The mechanic should be as follows: When the umpire sees the interference, he points to the infraction and declares, "That's interference!" While time is normally called on interference, in this case we wait to observe the fair/foul status of the batted ball. Once the status is determined, we then call time, and enforce the play as the situation dictates.

Most assignors will let you work up. If they don't I wouldn't work for him. In a perfect world assignors should use a pecking order. D1 conference & non-conference assignments should come first from those assignors, then D2, and on down the line. However, everyone gets anxious and in a hurry, not realizing they are creating sometimes 4 times the amount of work to replace someone when they do get an assignment at a higher level. They end up spending a day or two shuffling guys around and trying to find someone who's open. They'd be better off waiting until the level(s) above them are done assigning and then taking the best of what's left over. It drives me nuts when I get a D2 or JuCo assignment when I haven't even received my D1 games yet.

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Just to be clear touching a preceding runner is fine. Just don't pass.

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You must be new to officiating.

C'mon Brother! Federation - high school! NFHS. I'm studying the rules in anticipation of the test in February. Ah..Gotcha. Though maybe Pa. had you guys registering with Obama or something. .You know, make sure you're in the country legally.... oh, nevermind, I forgot that apparently doesn't matter anymore.

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