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That's how I felt about it. This arm was swinging like a grandfather clock. I felt it had to be called. What is YMMV? F1 comes set. I count 1-1000. F1 is going to the plate. Most mound here are basicly level, or not dug out in front. There was not reason for F1 to be there except that's where he wanted to be. :hopmad::D

my partner beat me to it. I'm BU. Grounder to F6. Throw pulled F3 off the bag and he missed a swipe tag by at least 3 feet. Home HC takes a leasurly stroll out to see me, and asks if i can get help. I tell him no, the play wan't close, and that I didn't need help. (In retropspect, getting help wouldn't have hurt anything, but I know I had it right. Opinions?) I later called the home F1 for a gorilla arm balk. Of course, there were only two people in the area that knew about the rule. So know I have the home HC watching every move the visiting F1 does. Great. Each time the visiting F1 you lean in in the set position, his pitching arm would swing forward, but imeadiately settled and stopped. I never balked him. This really pissed of the home HC. Fast forward to the bottom of the 7th and the home team is down 3 or 4. The new visiting F1 is a bit quick to the plate. I start counting it. His pause is just shorter than my 1-100 count. I don't balk him, but the home HC is asking about it. F1 is only contacting the rubber with half his foot. Home HC brings it up. I tell him that F1 is fine (looked it up this morning. I was wrong on that. It must be the entire pivot foot.). HC keeps on. I give the stop sign. He keeps on. PU boots him. Anyway, It was a fun game.

Rule 5-1-1a Ball becomes dead immediately when a pitch touches a batter or his clothing. Rule 5-1-1a1 The ball becomes dead even though the batter strikes at it.

If a pitch hits a batter, the ball is dead. If batter swings at said pitch, pitch is a strike.

I love Norway. I got to spend 10 days in Trondhiem when I was in the Marine Corps. Wonderful city. And the women are beautiful. Welcome to the board.

Waawaaa :shakehead:

I learned at my association meeting last night, that if you have info the just take off your hat and if you partner wants it, he'll come get it. Or something like that.

The "as to appear to be taking signs" part was me talking. That's not in the book. Reading this over and over again, it looks like the kid delivered around 50 illegal pitches.

In number 2, the act of contacting the rubber and placing hand together were at basicly the same time. He did pause every time before delivering. 6-1-3 states that for the set position the pitcher shall have the ball in either his gloved hand or his pitching hand, as to appear to be taking signs. My F1 never did this. From there, the pitcher becomes set. I'm guessing from theses two responses that we are not too concerned about this.

Number 1 R1 F1 in the strech comes set. F1 want to go to 1B, but his first move is with his pivot foot towards third. Balk? I have it as feinting to an unoccupied base. Balk. Number 2 Runner on any base. F1 puts his foot on the rubber and immediately brings his hands together at his chest. I had a kid doing this last night. I didn't call anything because I didn't know. The PU brought it to my attention after the game. He told me he didn't call it to keep the game going. That didn't sit well with me. If its an infraction, you call it, the kid learns, the kid fixes the problem, and we move on. Number 3 Runners on. F1 has the ball and is standing on the rubber in what would be the wind-up positon. Thing is, I'm not sure he is doint the intentionally. He just happens to be standing there. His first move was with his pivot foot to move into the strech positon. I did not hit him with a balk, but felt that maybe I should have. Okay, let me have it.

For me, starting my umpire career is as much about financial need as it is love of the game. I'm not sure I'd turn any game down at this point.

Well, I got through it, but it was rough. I start my career of with a 20+ to 1, 5 inning snoozefest. I had a nice banger pick off at second, though I might have been a bit quick on my timing on that call. I got to call a couple of balks. The game was kind of sad though. It was obvious to me that about half of one of the teams had just learned to throw a baseball. A couple things I've learned. 1. I had a fly ball in the right-center gap while I'm in A. I read F8 and F9 converging to make the play, so I my first reaction was to go out. After my first step I now decide that there is no way either of these kids are going to make the catch, so I change direction and head in to my pivot. WRONG! While I didn't need to go take the ball in the OF, once I started out there I need to stay with that. 2. I had a sliding catch by F8 that I didn't really sell all that well. I just gave it one hammer above my head. Nothing verbalized. It was kind of a stinker call on my part. 3. Anybody can stay focused on a well played close game. Its the awful games like I had last night that will challenge you. Overall, it was a good experience and I can't wait for my next game.

Sometimes I get confused whether a partner should speak up or not. I know you don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but this seems like it was real easy to get right. And again, it looks like we have two coaches that don't know the rule either. For some reason, I always find that amazing.

JV game. A bit nervous. A lot excited. Its been two weeks since I've worked any scrimmages, so I'm concerned about screwing up my mechanics. I've been running them through my head all morning. I feel confident that I know them. Applying them when the time comes is another thing all together. Rule is about the same way. To sit and talk about them, I think I got them for the most part, but seeing something and making the correct ruling could be an issue. Either way, I'm more than tired of reading about all of your games and I'm ready for my own experience.

Yeah, I was thinking of a big kick, but most pitchers will use a slide step these days. It really is all about direction.

A RH pitcher may turn on his pivot foot to go to 1B. He does not have to step off. Lifting the front foot is beginning the pitching motion.

6-1-3 about half way through. During these preliminary motions and during the set position until a delivery motion occurs, the pitcher may turn on his pivot foot or lift it in a jump turn to stopwith the non-pivot foot toward a base while throwing or feinting as outlined in 6-2-4 and 2-28-5,... This tells me yes he can.

Got it, and makes perfect sence.

So Cliffard is legalized once a pitch is delivered to Dillan, but Dillan is now illegal. BUT...once a pitch is delivered to Young, Dillan is legal and since Young follow him on the card, Young is legal. Driver re-enters in what would be the correct spot in the batting order, but the batter that belonged in the spot is on 3B. Driver is an illegal sub, is out, and is restricted to the bench. Woods is now the legal batter and we move on. Some of you guys have said that Woods is out, and I do not undersatand why.

I found this post on "Bad Night For Me" interesting and have nominated it accordingly for "Post Of The Month April, 2010"

OH MY GOD! Its even more ridiculous that i imagined.

Weather sux!

My association says navy or red w/ a navy shirt and black or white with Powder Blue. If you want everybody to dress the same, why give options? Drives me nuts.

You must have bionic knees.

I turned on once. R1 and R2 Nobody out. I'm F3. Liner to me, caught. 1 out. Step on 1B. 2 out. Throw to F6 at second. 3 out. It was a big deal to me when it happened 20 years ago.