Tredders

That line right there is why I miss living in Oz so much.... Almost brings tear to my eye from 'home'sickness. Haha, yeah, gotta love Australia, but do you miss the 40 degree plates in the middle of summer? haha, I sure know I wouldn't!

I gave the count mechanic and verbal before the pitch, but said nothing after the pitch had passed F2 (I would have done a standard strike mechanic, but without verbal as it was a swinging strike as instructed previously by UIC of my association). Perhaps I should have verbalised as soon as I saw the Batter run. While it may be too late now to change anything it is good to now know what I did was (almost) correct. Thank you for all of the advice!

Hmm, okay, fair enough then, I shall follow your advice and not give interference if something similar to this happens again. I do feel bad for the Defensive team as the OC rat screwed them over on this one. None the less the catcher probably should have been smart enough not to throw to first considering there was a runner on 3rd. Cheers Jocko

Thanks for the responses, I should have ended up tossing the Rat for calling the other HC a "wanker" loudly from his dugout, I gave him a very stern warning, but didn't pull the old "I don't want to hear another word from you". But if he came out again for anything but a pitching change he was going to be making Tony Hawk jealous of how much air time he got on his way to the car park. Just to clarify, the age group was U/15's so it would have been between 12-14 year olds. I did say the correct count before the pitch "2-1", I didn't ring the batter up and It was a past ball, R3 was safe at home before OC RAT sent the runner, catcher saw this and made the obvious throw to first, as soon as the catcher had thrown the ball R2 who was at 3B got sent home. While there may be some argument on this forum about it, if I have another play like this again there will definitely be an interference call as the BR has caused F2 confusion while making a play. Thanks guys!

I had my longest ever game just yesterday, Under 15 Semi Final, 7 innings took 4:10, had both coaches at each other after about the 2nd inning, then the game got put under protest in the 5th (pitcher pitched to a new batter over his pitch count). And the 6 different pitchers for each team. Oh, not to mention the combined 49 runs! (28-21). And to top it all off it was a lovely 95 degrees here in Australia!

Hmmm, Had my first ever EJ with an artistic batter who thought it would be nice to draw his thoughts on a punchout... He seemed to think about 3 inches off the outside of the plate. Silly Batter...

Hey Guys, I'm currently in my second season of umpiring and loving it! (well besides the 4 hour, 49 run marathon I just had!) Anyway I had a situation in my game yesterday, Runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out 2-1 count on the batter. The batter swings and misses and the ball sails past the catcher and to the backstop. R3 comes home, and 3rd Base coach (who is also the manager) sends his batter running to first as he claimed he thought it was strike 3, therefore dropped third strike. On the throw to first, R2 has come around and scored. I had a very angry manager come out at me claiming that he cannot do that, and because the batter has to return to bat, R2 should only advance to 3rd base. My response was this "R2 scores because the ball is still live, batter comes back with a 2-2 count". Obviously the manager was still very unhappy, but walked away (eventually). Was I correct in saying the ball was live? Should have I given the third base coach a consequence for his error in sending the batter? The final score was 28-21 in favour of the team who was fielding at the time of the incident, so therefore this (thankfully) made this play irrelevant. Also, for those who are curious, the grade was Under 15 Div 2 and it was the Semi Final (as the season is unfortunately coming to a close here in Australia). And I was a solo umpire at the game, and therefore could not ask for help from a partner. Thanks and Regards, Tredders