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Yeah, that would have been something to see. The clip I saw was from the CF camera, and you can clearly see PU look into the dugout after Cole waved the 4 fingers. What would have been even more fun would have been, if Boone had any 🎱🎱s, when the umpire looked in, Boone say something like "Hell NO!!!" then look at Cole and say "Pitch to him, you big baby!!"

I don't have access to a clip. but if you were watching the Cole game, you can see after Cole holds up 4 fingers, the PU looks into the Yankee dugout, then nods his head before sending Devers to first. So, yes. Cole may have requested the IBB, but Boone had to give his "approval" so to speak.

This. Search YouTube for Umpire Classroom. Patrick Farber does a great job in these videos that cover a wide range of topics. Worth the watch!

I'm fine with a ground rule double call here...But then why was NY replaying and syncing up F9 falling over the wall with BR's touch of 1B for 13 minutes? Looked like a lot more than a rules review going on in NY

I hope so.

I was watching this game. The broadcast had a camera in the replay room in NY. From what I could see on the monitors, and what NY kept syncing up playing back and forth was the BR's touch of 1B and F9's feet as he tumbled over the wall. It looked as if they were trying to decipher exactly when F9 was "in dead ball territory". IIRC the fielder is in dead ball territory when both feet are over the fence on the stands side. If that's the case, it looked like they decided BR had touched 1B prior to F9 being in DBT, and awarded one base on a catch and carry rule. I mean, let's face it. Technically it looks like this isn't covered. We have a rule for legal catch and running / Falling out of play, and we have a ruling for a deflection. Neither truly applies here. The explanation we got from the field sounds like they went with "catch and carry" and determined F9 wasn't in DBT until BR had touched 1B.

No run scores if the batter runner is out before reaching 1B safely. Doesn't matter ...tag..Throw...pop out. They don't get to 1B, no run. period.

I’m confused. You say the umpire was being lenient. So he wasn’t calling these balks? But you’re counting how many times each pitcher is balking? And now you’re losing and complaining to the umpire that you want the balks called because “they’re balking more than my kids”? Think about what others have politely posted. I’m going to refrain from further comment.

Great question.

This right here. You sold me. 2” model will be here in a few days. Looking forward to the first batch fall games to give it a whirl.

Pretty sure he’s in AAA rehabbing an injury.

So the game should be called differently once your team is losing? It’s fall ball. The kids are learning. You said so yourself. Score is irrelevant to the way the game is officiated. You’re correct about pick offs to 3rd. (Any base for that matter). Pitcher must step towards the base or disengage.

Just out of curiosity. Do at bats work like pitcher records when replaced during an AB? Example, a pitcher is removed with a 3 ball count on a batter. If the subsequent pitcher throws ball 4, the walk is “credited” to the first pitcher. If the game was suspended with 2 strikes on Jensen, if the substitution hitter swung and missed would Jensen get the K? That would have been even crazier. He literally would have been calling pitches to strike himself out. 🤔🙃

And...to his credit, He rounded the bases with no antics. (he did crush that ball)

Thats the same kid who was dancing on second base after his hit when his teammate got thrown out at home. 😁

Catcher/ situation dependent. It’s got to be a good working relationship (so far). And I have to be confident I’m having at least a decent day behind the plate and not missing many. Im not gonna tell a catcher “I missed that 1-2 pitch. It was a strike” if the batter just smashed the 2-2 pitch over the left field fence. If he strikes out next pitch, I may say “that 1-2 pitch was close. I should have grabbed it.” The other way around… I call a strike that’s probably too far off the corner, I might tell the catcher “don’t live there”. Again, age and catcher dependent.

Not as old and white as those of us who needed this explanation because we had no idea 🤷‍♂️

I forget what game I was watching...I think it was the Florida team. Kid got a hit, his teammate was thrown out at home trying to score, and he's at 2B, doing a celebration dance.

That's why I ask. I'm not very well versed in the nuances of the little league rule book. So I'm asking. Like I said, more than a few times the past few weeks I've found myself pointing at the TV during a live play and saying "That's Interference", or "That's Obstruction"

A little off topic, but it doesn’t seem like LL is real interested in calling obstruction on a fielder fielding a throw with his foot blocking the runner’s slide to the base. I’ve seen a few plays this week where I found myself yelling and pointing at the TV “that’s obstruction” , only to have it never even mentioned or discussed🤷‍♂️

Isn’t an effort to remain on the bag a requirement of the bona fide slide rule?

2025 rule change for NCAA To amend Rule 9-2-b Penalty as follows: PENALTY—With no one on base, if the ball drops or slips out of the hand, intentionally or accidentally, it is no pitch if the ball does NOT cross the foul line. If it does cross the foul line, it is a ball. If there is a runner(s) on base and the ball is dropped, it is a balk.

Because it's a hill they're willing to die on? Instead of changing the wording to "One step back, forward or to the side, and one step forward" Interesting enough, OBR says pretty much what NCAA wants enforced...and doesn't even mention a step to the side He shall not raise either foot from the ground, except that in his actual delivery of the ball to the batter, he may take one step backward, and one step forward with his free foot. Obviously not enforced "as written" in MLB

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I don't want to sound like a complainer. I actually like the clock rules. I just don't like the fact that they're throwing all this on a base umpire.....In some cases the ONLY BU.