NorthTexasUmp

This is not a plate meeting topic. Ground rules, players properly equipped, let's play. Summer you might need to clarify time limit and run rule but that's about it.

Stands means there is not enough evidence to overturn. Confirmed means there is enough evidence that the call on the field was correct.

Had a problem with this a few summers ago. Not the best of fields with a very sandy batters box. First time, "Time. Pitch, wait for the batter to be ready". Coach immediately states that if the batters in the box he can pitch anytime. "No coach, it's a safety issue". After several more times of this (with a comment to wait for the batter), I walked a ball out to the pitcher and told him if he did it again I was calling an Illegal Pitch. Next time he did (wind-up), there were runners on and I balked him. Coach decided to watch the rest of the game from the parking lot.

I was there that night as well as the following day. There was a replacement for him at 3B. Hope he is OK.

​Including FED!!! (Now)!

Based on how I envision the play, I probably don't have OBS. Very difficult to block the whole base with just a foot. That being said, since you did call OBS, was the runner awarded third base?

In your situation, PU should have stayed out of it. Question did you give a "That's nothing" (safe) signal? Might or might not have helped. Also, if I was PU and had Interference, I would have called it right away and killed the play. That type of interference is often a difficult call for the PU to see depending on where the runner and fielders are.

Crew from my chapter has the 7:00 game tonight. I know all 4 of them well. Worked with 2 of them in the playoffs this year.

​No!! There was not a play being made on him at that point. He is free to choose his own path to the bag. And that would also pertain to the RL. No play was made so there is no RLI.

It depends on where the runner was at TOP (time of pitch) which is the moment that pitcher has committed to pitch, not when he released the ball. If he had not attained 2B by the TOP, then the call was correct.

Was this a 6-man crew?

Unintentional, this is nothing. The Batter is doing what he is suppose to be doing. As clawdad said, unless it is judged to be intentional, this is not interference. The defense messed the play up, not the offense.

B4 stepped put and the pitcher delivered a pitch. In FED, the pitch is automatically a strike. It's an uncaught third strike and he made it to 1B safely. Any other code, call the pitch on it's merit. Over F2's head, it's probably ball 4. If it's judged to be a strike, you still have the uncaught third strike and the outcome is the same as in FED. Only difference is whether the pitcher gets credited with a K or charged with a BB.

Dang it!! I was at a clininc this weekend that Shaylor Smith, the HPU, was an instructor. Would have loved to hear him tell this story.

There is an important difference between a "protected" fielder on a batted ball versus a thrown ball. On a batted ball, the fielder is protected from being interfered with. On a thrown ball, he is protected from being called for Obstruction. He is still protected, just from different things.

INT???? Fixed I knew what you meant but was afraid others wouldn't.

INT????

@kufan1978 - As others have said, you should never publically criticize other officials. In fact, in Texas, under TASO, it is an Ethics violoation: No official shall criticize any other official or any individual association within TASO in the presence of coaches, players, spectators, or the news media before, during, or after a game/match.

I'm with Matt.That's VO and I will give the runner 3B!

First responsibilty for PU is fair/foul. Then he can glance at R2.

But it DID deflect off the pitcher. Look at the 0:45 mark.