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Runners on 1st and 2nd, ground ball to SS who throws to 3B for the FC force put. R2 throws an elbow at F5 as he comes in to 3B as if trying to knock the ball out, but only succeeds in hurting F5 who was still able to hang on to the ball. F5 had stepped sideways off the base and out of the path of the runner just before the runner got there. Obviously the runner was already out even if the ball is knocked loose, but would there be grounds to further penalize the batting team? I assume this should not be a consideration, but the runner is known to be a dirty player that likes to skate on the knife edge of breaking the rules. I recall a similar instance of this happening at 1B in the MLB but ARod was called out after successfully knocking the ball lose.

Sorry to revive an ancient post, but my son's team just ran into a wheelchair ump at CDP in an elimination game. I did some googling and found this thread. All the mobility problems were obvious. He was blowing 1B pickoff calls from 40 feet away with no angle to see the tag. He would park his wheelchair right next to F3 so if he tried to go to his right for a ball he would run right into the wheelchair. A ball actually came that way and he could not move an inch. Our player barely got in front of his wheelchair to make the play. Worst part was that he absolutely refused to ask for help. He gave warnings to everyone and made rude remarks to players. He point blank told our coach that we were lucky he gave us a gift call even though the kid was obviously out. I agree with other comments that the wheelchair isn't the issue. If he couldn't move to see the plays then he shouldn't be out there. If he was on a pogo stick but could do his job then we'd all be fine. My question is how should the coaches deal with problems like this in a big expensive tournament like CDP? Us parents just have to keep our mouths shut but we didn't pay thousands of dollars to have a game decided by an obviously vindictive ump who couldn't move and was a hazard to players.