Double Up

Okay, so yesterday I had two things occur and I’m curious how you all would handle it. Doesn't matter the rule set, happy to hear anything you have for me. 1st I had a fake tag being decoyed at home plate. 2nd I had a BR yelling “I got it” on a fly ball in the infield

Preach the gospel! That was my statement, almost verbatim "Tell the AD he should pay for another guy" These games are just pre-season scrimmages, but everyone wants to forget why we're there to begin with. to get the work in, see some live AB's, and learn from the situations. Appreciate all the feedback, I agree, the delay of game should have been handled differently. It's even pre-season for the umpires.

I concur, throwing to an unoccupied base. while making a play on a runner is legal, even while in contact.

NfHS rule set. Hello all, and thank you in advance for your replies I can't explain all that went on in yesterday's games, it would take me a lifetime But to start, what is the proper mechanics and enforcement of calling a strike for a batter's failure to maintain one foot in the box between pitches? This wasn't on my field, but it was described as the batter wandering down the line and taking some time getting back in the box after a routine pitch, for this he was warned. An exchange occurred, and the umpire issued the batter a warning for what I'll call "delay of game", for lack of a better term. Well, the player said something profane and was then warned for that as well. The next pitch is delivered, and again, the batter takes his time getting ready for the next pitch. The umpire then instructs the batter that wherever the next pitch is thrown, it is going to be a strike. Pitch comes. Of course, it's nowhere close, umpire makes his call, "Strike", batter loses his $#@@ so to speak, drops another profanity, and gets dumped as a result. Now, legitimate ejection, no doubt, but how about the enforcement of the called strike? I thought that when I read about this rule, the umpire would call a strike and a strike would be added to the count without the pitch being thrown, I don't call many NFHS games, that's why I don't know the correct enforcement at the NFHS level. but calling the obvious ball, a strike is always going to set the place ablaze. The most interesting thing in my game was a LHP who, with R1 in place, decided he would go windup. He threw a pitch from the windup, and the runner didn't run. The next pitch. he threw from the stretch after the coach yelled at him to "go from the stretch". How soon did he forget because the third pitch, the LHP toes the rubber in the windup position. Now, I'm intrigued by his setup, so I'm pretty focused on his feet in how he's now set up for the next pitch In my fixation, apparently, there was a small hitch the hands, and R1 takes off for 2B. I'm single man, and watch the LHP step off correctly and throw to 2B where R1 is thrown out. The offensive coach wants the balk, I tell him, I have legal disengagement. I could have missed the hands, but on subsequent windup deliveries, I didn't see any real hitch of the hands while in the wind up. what I have learned from this one is that the hands can also be considered the start of the wind-up delivery. That's never really been anything I was explicitly watching for, so it's one more for the memory banks. IDK, maybe the coach made it up, again, I didn't see anything egregious in looking at the hands while in the windup. The coach, to further articulate his point mentioned something about "the pitcher's hesitation" which was also something I did not see. So there you go. Thanks for the engagement. I look forward to the comedic relief as well as the detailed case book chronicals

thanks for the clarification.

is the answer the same if the BR fails to touch 1B? What if it was 3b or Homplate?

funny you should mention that because that was one thought that had occurred, it's really difficult if not impossible to balk to second base, provided one clears the rubber in making the move to 2B. I guess that theory has been disproven.

my thoughts exactly.

Morning. After another weekend of fun at the local youth baseball tournament, I thought I'd ask the group to weigh in. OBR R1 and R3. F1 makes an inside move to 2B which is unoccupied, no throw, just step offs in the direction of 2B. R1 does not leave early, in fact, R1 does not even run on the leg lift. I suspect this is a balk. the ball was not thrown, but the move was made to a unoccupied base. the umpire justified the inside move to second base as a "step off" and no balk was enforced.

I later learned this. thanks!

Okay, I own that i may not have enforced this correctly, but it made perfect sense to me at the time. R2 is headed home on a hit in the gap. The Catcher, without the ball, is blocking the plate wating for the ball. R2 with nowhere to go does not slide, but rather drops the shoulider full steam into score. The play at the plate wasn't even close, but the lowering of the shoulder to blow up the catcher is not tolerated. I scored the run, but ejected the player for unsportsman like conduct. Pitcher secured the ball, which prevented the BR from advancing any further, but let's say BR keeps on running into score as well... we would most certainly have ourselves a situation to deal with. Let me have it. OBR and NFHS ( if theres a difference)

I'm calling out for the runner being out of the base path on the attempted tag. Easy one for me with the replay. I'm honestly surprise the call onthe field was overturned, unless the 3rd base or 2nd base saw this clearly.

there it is. clear as day. thanks!

This was an oddity. P throws to pick off at a baserunner at 2b. R2 slides back in safely, but the ball was thrown in the dirt and gets lodged in R2's helmet. I didnt realize it at the time, it just seemed that ball may have struck the runners face, so I granted him the time, then realizing that ball went in between his extended cheek guard. I'm aware of the basic 1 base awards for the lodge ball in the Catchers equipment, fence, padding, etc from the pitcher. but was not immediately quite sure if this also fell into that category.