MooseLoop
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The tag of the loose helmet should still be an out, as it is part of the runner. If not, then the runner's helmet impeded the fielder's play and the runner is out for interference. Bochy did not dispute the call, so what am I missing?
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Disagree. You are more likely to get sued and more likely to lose that suit if you do not call time when the rules require you to do so. The batter is just as likely to get hit, or ensuing action will result in an injury. I can picture a plaintiff's lawyer telling a jury during closing argument "But for the failure of this defendant umpire to call time, as the rules required, my unfortunate client would not have been injured." I recall a thread a couple or three years ago trying to find examples of lawsuits against umpires. I think we found one or two, none of which led to liability. As a practical matter, you need not umpire with lawsuits in mind. Doing your job as best you can is the best defense.
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Nope, only on the left lower forearm. That's where I experience multiple hits, because I probably have about 90% right-handed batters, so my left wrist is more exposed in the slot, with my right wrist behind the catcher. I can tolerate one hit, but a second hit on top of a healing first hit really hurts. I also think, without knowing, that the bone is more likely to break the second time, like metal fatigue. I also consider it unaesthetic and unmanly, so on balance prefer no protection for the right wrist. And no, I don't cover it. Short sleeves are cooler in both senses of the word.
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This system still has humans setting the top and bottom of the zone according to each individual batter's knees and pants/shoulders midpoint as he is preparing to swing. It does not account for the actual ovoid nature of a realistic strike zone. And it removes a critical baseball skill: adjusting to an individual human plate umpire's strike zone for that game. Just because it is technology does not mean it is accurate.
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I kept getting drilled in the left wrist/forearm area, so last year I started wearing a short evoshield pad over it, with the insert that hardens to the shape of your body. Have only taken a glancing blow there since, but am glad I will have it when I need it. Recommended.
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2015 OBR definitions: "The Strike Zone shall be determined from the batter's stance as the batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball." This language is unchanged from the prior language. The 2014 picture had a guy in a hat and stirrups standing on dirt actually swinging the bat across the plate. This guy is crouched with his bat over his shoulder. Has MLB changed their definition of "batter is prepared to swing at a pitched ball"? This picture would lead one to think that the strike zone has been lowered and made smaller. And that a batter can make it smaller yet by crouching more. Bring back the old picture, Sandy!
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Thank you. I still got 'that's nothing'. New OBR 6.01(a)(10) [old 7.09(j)] says: It is interference by a batter or a runner when: . . . (10) He fails to avoid a [protected] fielder who is attempting to field a batted ball . . .. The umpire shall call the runner out in accordance with Rule 5.09(b)(3) (former Rule 7.08(b)). ["Any runner is out when: . . (3) He . . . hinders a fielder attempting to make a play on a batted ball."] If the batter-runner is adjudged not to have hindered a fielder attempting to make a play on a batted ball, and if the base runner’s interference is adjudged not to be intentional, the batter-runner shall be awarded first base [emphasis added]; BTW, Little League rules (7.09j), under which the OP is being played, omit the bolded portion of the above post. Whatever that might mean. Rich?
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That's nothing. No hindrance equals no interference. The bar is low, but I'm not seeing any actual hindrance from the OP language. This ain't golf. That being said, can someone provide a cite to the "(10) He fails to avoid . . . " language. I'm not finding it in any of the "runner is out when" rules.
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4. "A catcher shall not be deemed to have hindered or impeded the progress of the runner if, in the judgment of the umpire, the runner would have been called out notwithstanding the catcher having blocked the plate." The 2015 version of the home plate collision rule gives the catcher near-total freedom to block the plate, but tells the runner not to bother trucking him, because you'll be out anyway. That's why this is the first time this year I've seen this question. BTW, I don't think a slide would have avoided a collision on this play. But I agree that the runner violated 6.01(i)(1) and would have been out even if he dislodged the ball.
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Did the batter know that the pitch was not going to curve back over the plate and still have time to avoid getting hit? It has to be pretty obvious that the batter had time to read and react and avoid getting hit before I keep him in the batter's box.
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How do you keep track of when a starter is subbed out, and whether his sub has an at-bat? I write down on my line-up the inning and number of outs next to the starter's name for each substitution (e.g., "3.3" for no outs in the bottom of the third) and wait for a challenge on the issue of an at-bat, which I would then refer to the scorebook if it ever happened which it hasn't. PITA, and time-consuming, especially important for time limit games.
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How could you have left out the rule allowing starters to re-enter into a different slot of the batting order?
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Little League's Big League division (age 15-18) specifically allows a pitcher who is pinch-hit for to resume pitching at the beginning of the next half-inning. Other than LL, I know of no rule preventing a re-entering player from pitching again, except FED 3-1-2 limiting an injured pitcher in some circumstances from returning to pitch. Little League 3.03, bless its heart, prohibits pitchers removed from the mound from returning to pitch, except for Intermediate (age 11-13) and up allowing a pitcher remaining in the line-up changing positions to return to pitch once per inning (a la OBR and FED).
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Well then, I say Billy Extrahitter was a starter who moved from one position (EH) to another (F1) and was then subbed out. He can re-enter like any other starter.
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I'm saying no, unless starters could re-enter, which they cannot under OBR.
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Whether the rule provides that a batter is out if he is touching the plate when he bats the ball is a rule interpretation, and protestable. Assuming the rule does so provide, then whether the batter is touching the plate when the ball is batted is a judgment issue, and not protestable.
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As soon as the pitch misses the strike zone, the batter becomes a runner.
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Pitcher appears set while straddling the rubber
MooseLoop replied to basejester's topic in Youth Recreation Ball
So your interpretation is that coming set while on the rubber is not a "motion naturally associated with his pitch", but coming set while off the rubber with the intent to deceive the runner and not just to adjust the ball in the glove is a "motion naturally associated with his pitch"? -
Pitcher appears set while straddling the rubber
MooseLoop replied to basejester's topic in Youth Recreation Ball
So what does he do after holding his hands together for a few seconds while off the rubber? The phrase "natural motion associated with his pitch" is the same phrase that commits him to pitch when on the rubber. Until his non-pivot foot moves, or hands separate, or some part of his body moves towards home, I don't have a balk. Little League rules seem to have omitted the OBR language requiring the hands being separated before coming to the set position. So your F1 apparently can engage the rubber, 'take a sign', and pitch. But if he deceives a runner into taking a lead and then picks him off without stepping to the base, that doesn't seem right either. I'm not seeing rule support for either a balk or a don't-do-that so far. But I wouldn't mind being convinced otherwise. -
But see the comment to new 6.01(i)(2) to the effect of runner must be actually hindered and catcher doesn't hinder runner if runner would have been out anyway.
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Assuming "before the pitch is delivered" means before the pitching motion has begun, and does not include after pitcher is committed to pitch but before he actually releases the ball.
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Now 6.03(a)(3).
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Yup, BRD section 150. Good find, @senor azul.
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So did BU also not make a safe call at 1B? And did F3 not tag BR while off the base?Something sounds screwy in St. Looey. Maven is right to be slow to call abandonment. But a coach should not rely on their own catch/no-catch call.
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OBR 7.03(b) [old 4.17] and LL 4.17 (I think!) says you cannot play with only eight players. Local rules or practice may vary. USSSA 7.02.F allows 8 players with an automatic out. The FED rule is 4-4-1f.
