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As long as a portion of the foot is in front of the plate, its all good. If the whole foot is outside the bounds of the plate, then they are illegal.

We can't see it in this video, but one thing I have noticed when working 4 man on a 60' is that often U2 is starting WAY too far outside. With no one on base, U2 can be fairly deep; I actually like that and enjoy working the outside of the base depending on where the throw is coming from. But once there are runners on and U2 is 'inside' (although they are still outside), I find too many are way too deep to effectively get in quickly. I try and start as shallow as I can so that I am cheating those extra few steps. I have responsibility for leaving early, so as long as I have that and potential INT or OBS, when the ball is play, I'll take the extra distance being shallow offers. With this play developing so quickly, I'm not sure now much extra starting shallow could get, but R2 had the time to get 60'... U2 starting shallow maybe had time to cover 20-25 feet and gain an angle.

I don't recall LL having a slide rule, other than slide or avoid. 7.08 - Any runner is out when: (a)(3) the runner ford not slide or attempt to get around a fielder who has the ball and is waiting to make the tag, or (4) LL Majors and below, only, the runner slides head first while advancing - (approved ruling: there is no 'must slide rule'). I cannot locate anything in the book which defines what is a slide, a legal or illegal slide. There is nothing in rule 2.

What she doesn't know cannot hurt her, right?

LET THE FESTIVAL OF BUYING AND SELLING COMMENCE!

Drove out from Orange County yesterday to work a So Cal State Juniors game in Moreno Valley with my buddy who is heading to Bend for the Juniors Regional. The tournament will end today, Friday with the 12u teams also completing their state tournament this weekend. So, just like that... the 2024 Little League season for 95% of the umpires is over, unless you are one of the chosen heading on to regionals or WS assignments. Seems like it was only 2 weeks ago that the season started. Time does fly... If you are heading to a regional, best of luck and enjoy the time!

Fixed it for you. Love how the partner umpire just took a huge hand full of 'nope, I'm not getting in the middle of this!', and honestly, once the mask started swinging, I'm most likely doing the same thing. Once they all went to the ground, then I'm pulling coaches off my partner, but not when he is swinging to take heads off.

https://www.wral.com/story/fight-between-coach-umpire-ruins-little-league-game-in-wilson/21527488/

Wasn't me, but point taken.

One of the nicest and unassuming guys out on the field. I think this was his first in 10 years? He is in no way a hard ass and even last night was still in-awe that the coach decided to comply. And no, not Anthony, although I wouldn't put it past him! Someone else mentioned that maybe the coaches did not know the schedule, or whatever. This is the sectionals which means they have gone through the same exact process through the district tournaments, and into sectionals. All of the managers have the site/tournament rules and are reminded of the pre-game schedule every game by the TD at the coin flip for home/away as each side only gets X minutes for their in-field, etc...

LL sectionals. I wasn't there, was just sharing the EJ story from the games we are hosting. Not all of the crews are ours, we have other Districts also within the section covering games. But as others mentioned, the tournament has strict warm up rules per side pre-game. @grayhawk your thought may be right, but lets say he protested... and the TD overturned it. Then the other team is going to protest, which then gets a call to WR... then if they do not like the answer, it goes to Williamsport. By the time all this is done, not only will their pitcher be warmed up, it will almost be his bed time!

Crew is starting the plate meeting when they notice the HT F1, F2 and a coach still warming up. One of the crew heads over and tells the coach that they all need to be in the dugout as the plate meeting is happening and the game primaries are about to get started (intro of the kids, etc). Coach tells U1 that he needs to get his 9yo pitcher warmed up, and then tells the kid to keep throwing. U1 tells the coach, again, no. You all need to be in the dugout, now. Again... no, my kid needs to throw. U1 give the coach the options: stop now, go into the dugout and be here for the game, or take the other door and get dumped. Coach chose door number 2... U1 dumps the coach during the plate meeting. Of course he then heads down the line... nope that does not work. Coach then goes to CF... nope. TD finally has to go out to the guy and get him to leave the field area. He heads out to the parking lot behind the field and sets up on his tail gate, which for the crew was far enough as they were done dealing with this clown. How dumb do you have to be to get dumped pre-game after being quite literally given 3 opportunities to stay in the game?

This can also be a league specific local rule. In the league I was affiliated with, for our Minor B teams (8-9s) we locked 3rd base so that the runner could only score on a ball put into play by the batter, being forced on a walk or HBP, a play being made on another runner (stealing 2nd for instance), or an attempt to put R3 out at third by the defense (pass ball/overthrow to 3rd). In our rules, this scenario would not have allowed R3 to score because it did not meet the criteria as the B/R was not an actual runner AND there is no D3K in our Minor B level. We implemented this local rule as this allowed teams to put everyone in at pitcher/catcher without worrying about 5 runs being scored on 5 pass balls. They get a chance to try new kids, the kids all get to play all positions and they get some experience. We encouraged ALL teams to run and score on the passed ball, or steal home due to defensive indifference, because come the end of the season at playoffs, the rule went away. Teams just knew in advance that if they scored on the passed ball, they would go back to 3rd but they still played as if it were live and mattered. It worked for us, so that is all that mattered.

Since pretty much only the 12u teams are on ESPN, I wish they would have left the Intermediate and above alone. Heck, my regional in Nogales barely had Game Changer due to lack of internet access at the facility. Only group now that bats 9 is Seniors... Takes all the strategy of the coaches actually having to find time to play their kids out of the mix.

U3 last night for an 8-9 LL Superstar game. R1/R2 and I am in D (Its a LL mechanic for 3 man, 60' bases in the West.) Ball is hit to the outfield and as R1 rounds 2nd he hesitates. Base coach (manager) screams at the runner "run, f'ing RUN!'. Play ends, I call time and quietly show him the door. Can't be f-bombing 8/9 year old kids. No issues, coach left and we resumed with no further problems. EJ coaches team won 13-3.