Richvee

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yep. My mistake. Call it when the interference happens. Kill it when the fair foul status is determined.

The interference happens the moment F3 touches the ball. That kills the play, so the catch never happens. Runner is out. What we need to determine after the interference is the status of the ball. If F3 touches the ball over fair territory, the runner is out, the batter goes to 1B. If R1 interferes, and the ball falls untouched and rolls foul, or if F3 first touches it over foul territory, R1 is out, batter returns to bat with a foul ball added to the count.

Unfortunately, I know how our meetings usually run. From what I can gather, during the meeting with the state and the rules interpreters of the state's different chapters, the state didn't have any guidance either. (If it was brought up and actually discussed, I have no idea) state hasn't had much to say either.

Unfortunately I have nothing to report. The topic never came up.

Season starts in a few weeks. I expect a RLV ejection by April 2nd.

@Biscuit Put your mask with TW pads on the floor of you car under the heater vent on your drive to the game. They'll be soft and ready to go first pitch even on 30 degree days.

I laughed. Great line. Though I have a little issue with yahoo’s ignorant “newfound accountability “ statement.

Also, BR can use white If there's no play on the BR going into 1B, he can touch either first time by. Only white on any return to the bag

Don't let Manfred see this.

The rule has already been amended heavily with new interps and guidance. The BR can use the white base if the throw pulls F3 foul, or to avoid a collision.

Ah yes! If there was one two man mechanic I would love to see changed. R1 only, GB DP possibly. BU takes play at second and stays with it. PU has play at 1b.

I'll stick with my answer. If he hasn't gotten to the point where he's legally sliding and contact happens in front of the base, it's a violation

I read this as contact beyond the base. If the fielder is on top of the bag, and there's contact with a runner who is sliding legally, that's nothing...even if the slide continues through the bag....Nothing happened past the bag to warrant a FPSR call. I have to take a closer look at this caseplay. My gut tells me if the slide starts late, and there's contact in front of the bag before the runner has his but on the ground, It's a violation.

Not only doing what NCAA wants, but a fantastic job of preventive umpiring. It probably kept tempers from flaring AND could very well have kept this kid in the game and avoided a suspension.

It seems FED is leaving the penalty up to the states. (Which bothers me to no end especially when they make it a POE) I know Patrick from Umpireclassroom has said Ga. is using the coach restriction penalty. I'll get info from my chapter in NJ tomorrow night, but I'm not expecting a definitive answer. Unless something has been passed down since I last talked with our chapter interpreter.

There's literally no access to the colored bag. BR obviously slows to avoid trucking the fielder and injuring himself ot the rielder. I've got obstruction all day, no matter how many bases are out there...He's blocking them all. And as far as the double base goes, the throw certainly did not pull him into foul ball territory so the that's off the table as well.

Have to share. I got a good chuckle out of this one. Random college ESPN + game. R2. Pitcher, stretching to come set, puts his hands together. While bringing the arms down, he separates his hands, leaves the ball in his glove, goes back into the glove to get ball out, all before stepping off and spinning to 2B. Balk is called. Announcer says. “Let’s see what happened….Oh yeah, he never came set…..That was an easy one” 🤣🤣🤣

I remember studying a state certification test (not umpiring) with a group. We needed 70 out of 100. We would come across stuff we weren’t sure about while studying and would say, “well, that’s one of the dirty 30. We only have to know 70% of this stuff”. 🤣

That’s pretty brutal getting tested on age group differences and local league rules. Seems things like that you can be reminded of in the pregame. Good luck. I’m sure you’ll do fine.

I'm on the fence. Personally, I'd love to see it align across codes. I also can clearly see the issue with consistent enforcement. Especially at the sub varsity levels, and especially by the slew of "Sub varsity lifers " in the high school ranks.

Not a fan. I'm looking for more uniformity within codes. Not more differences.

I was talking about this with someone. There's a few odd circumstances that could crop up. I don't know if they are addressed anywhere. 1-2 pitch. 1B empty. pitch on the inside part of the plate, F2 tries to "frame", misses the ball. Umpire calls a ball, batter takes off for 1B. He gets there, taps his head. ABS says strike.

100%

We do, in high school have the option to be "that guy" and start calling strikes when the batter steps out with 2 feet and there was no exception. I don't want to go there, and I've never had to. When the batter sees your not letting a pitcher start prematurely, 99% of them will stop the shenanigans, get in the box and get ready to hit.