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Blowout game, 10u travel. Top of first, winning team already up by 5. Pitching coach requests time after a walk. 1st base coach (AC) starts yelling about how time can't be called until his runner reaches first in the direction of the DC. They start to jaw back and forth, I come up first base line to get between them and shut it down. Next inning, runner coming home while winning team on defense (up by 10 at this point). DC asks loudly during the play if there was batter interference since the batter moved out of the box while ball is live. I give a safe signal and say "no interference" loudly since it was loud. After play stops, he tells me that he's just trying to ask a question and I shouldn't be yelling at him. I tell him that he asked during a play and I'm trying to keep everyone informed while people are yelling. He thinks I'm talking down to him and asks to be spoken to as an adult, which I then just look at him with confusion and walk away. Last inning, the winning team is up 16-1 and is breaking every baseball etiquette rule there is. Stealing, trying to run up the score, etc. This is causing friction between the coaches and they start chirping at each other again. AC at 1st base is yelling over at the HC's on the 3rd base side, things are escalating, I hear the winning team's HC getting loud. I call time and toss the winning team's HC and AC forcefully (very loud "You, you're done" - I saw them as the agitators mainly because they were chirping loudly throughout the game and I heard them escalating. They protest, AC tells me I've had a SH*# game all night. HC calls me a racist as he was leaving. Winning team AC took over as HC and informed me that the coach on the losing team was calling them bush league (I did hear that said). I went over to investigate, told them I heard bush league, and the HC admitted to saying it. I calmly ejected him as well. Game finished up nice and quiet. Even the parents were telling me good job because they were tired of hearing it from both sides. Surprisingly, the ejected HC for the defeated team called the board VP and told him that we did a great job and that he was just concerned for his kids and parents. I was disappointed that coaches from the winning team were engaging at all. Things were escalating and I felt that elections were the only way to get control of the behavior on the field. These are the first ejections I've had in a baseball game. Feel free to critique and ask questions as necessary. Thank you!

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20180411/parent-baseball-coaches-talked-of-beaning-daughter DURHAM, NH -- Police said they are looking into allegations made by a parent of a baseball player in the Oyster River Youth Association (ORYA), who claims two coaches conspired on a plan to injure his daughter in an attempt to intimidate her and force her to quit the league. Durham Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelly said the department is aware of the situation, but as of Tuesday had not decided whether to launch an investigation. In an email to ORYA board of directors Chair Ben Genes, Dan Klein, of Madbury, alleges that two coaches said they would instruct a player to “bean” Klein’s daughter -- strike her in the head with a baseball during practice -- in order to intimidate her into leaving the baseball program. The conversation allegedly took place during a draft meeting to assign players to team rosters. That meeting was held, according to Klein’s email, on March 21 at Libby’s Bar & Grill in Durham. According to Klein, his 11-year-old daughter is the only girl enrolled to play on a team in her division. He said in the email he was informed his daughter was the last player drafted. The email, dated April 7, was also sent to several members of the ORYA board of directors, the Madbury Select Board, Durham Town Council and Oyster River Cooperative School District Board, Lee town administrators, Durham Town Administrator Todd Selig and Durham Parks and Recreation Director Rachel Gasowski. Klein said he was made aware of the alleged conversation by two other coaches who also attended the draft meeting -- Troy Brisard and Kirk O’Quinn -- who found the discussion about Klein’s daughter to be inappropriate. Klein said O’Quinn agreed to put Klein’s daughter onto his roster. In a phone interview with Seacoast Media Group on Tuesday, Klein said he did not reach out to police, nor is he necessarily seeking any retribution against the accused coaches. “I’m not on the board -- it’s not my place to say what’s right for them,” Klein said. “I hope that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again, and that kids will be protected from this sort of language and be safe.” ORYA Director Matthew Glode said the association is conducting an investigation into the alleged comments. “In fairness to everyone involved, we have no further comment until the investigation is completed,” Glode said in an email. Klein said his daughter has played baseball and T-ball with ORYA since 2012 and has enjoyed it, mostly without incident. When she began playing, Klein said, she had several teammates who were girls, but that number dwindled over the years as many girls her age switched to softball. Klein said he has served ORYA in various capacities over the years, including as a coach. He said he is not now involved in ORYA in any capacity other than being the parent of a participant. In his email, he referenced a 2015 quarrel he said he had with an ORYA board member that may have led to lingering animosity, and as a result, motivated the alleged threats against his daughter last month. In a recent email chain forwarded to Seacoast Media Group, Genes wrote to Klein thanking him for coming forward with the complaint concerning his daughter. “ORYA will immediately address the incident in our baseball program and move to ensure our program is 100% compliant with our policies,” Genes wrote in the email, dated April 8. “I will contact Troy (Brisard) and Kirk (O’Quinn) to followup on the details referenced. Please let me know if you have any questions.” In an email to Selig dated April 9, Genes said that the ORYA board had already “taken specific action” related to Klein’s complaint, but it is not known what that action is and whether it is the investigation Glode said was underway. ″(Such) that all sports activities for his daughter are safe and welcoming,” Genes wrote. “We are now beginning a formal investigation into the incident as per our policies and procedures and will provide a summary followup to all our stakeholders.” Email messages left on Tuesday for Genes, Brisard and O’Quinn, seeking further comment were not returned. Their phone numbers were not immediately available.

8U Minor Leagues There is a close play at 1st base. Umpire signals the runner safe. The opposing coach yells "out!" so runner steps off of 1st. The 1st basemen then tags the runner and the umpire changes his call to out. Is this coaches interference? If so, where in the Little League hand book does it address this? Thanks! LC

OBR Rule Set: SITUATION: A coach who was previously suspended for conduct in a prior game, while serving his one game suspension at a new game, uses Face-Time to communicate with his assistant coach and deliver instructions, etc to get an "edge" and help his team. I noted that Rule 4.07 talks about a coach ejected shall take no further part in that game. This does not seem to be covered by the rules as written and probably needs to be addressed in the current by-laws of the league regarding not being able to use an electronic device to communicate with your team at any time while serving a suspension. Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation and if so, how did you sort it out?

R1, 1st Base Coach loudly speaks out, "That's a balk," before the pitcher delivers. How should this be handled under FED and OBR rulesets? We told the coach to knock it off and let us make that call. There was no balk to be called. Fortunately, we had no more problems in the game with this coach trying to "help us out." I recall reading somewhere that the offender could be ejected if they were warned and continued, but I can't seem to find the correct references. Any reference(s) would be appreciated.

First inning of a JV tourney. I'm PU. Banger comes in at home. Ball beats the runner, and I call him out. VTHC comes out and says he missed the tag. I spoke with my partner who confirmed that the catcher missed the tag. *sigh* - nothing good can come of this, but better to get the call right. This sammich isn't looking very tasty. I overturn myself and call the runner safe at home. Naturally the HTHC comes out now and asks if I want the BU to call balls and strikes for me, too. Things settle down for a couple of innings. Third inning. HT batter steps a foot out of the batters box as the catcher is attempting to throw to 3B to put out a baserunner - the ball deflects off the batter's helmet. I called BI based on the discussion here at http://umpire-empire.com/index.php/topic/61470-batters-box-what-to-do/. Again the HTHC comes out and claims that the batter can't be interfering because he's in the batters box (not unexpected, in and of itself). But then he says "your other umpire has been overturning your calls all day, do you want to get him in here to help?" I said "coach, that's your warning." He responded with "Really? That's my warning? Really?? No." At that point I ejected. So I wanted to get on here and let you guys know that (1) I appreciate the rules discussions here that made me very confident in ruling what I did, and (2) my reading here has helped me understand the time and place for ejecting (i.e. the "three P's") and that doing so doesn't make me a bad person.

NFHS rules. R1, no outs. The batter hits a towering fly ball to shallow centerfield. R1 stays on 1B. The first-base coach, seeing the full-speed batter-runner might pass R1, reaches out and grabs BR and slows him down. The ball falls uncaught. F8 flips the ball to F6 who steps on the bag for an expected force out. F6 does not tag R1, then R1 slides into 2B. Per 3-3-2, the BR will be out for interference, and there is a delayed dead ball. Any outs made on the play stand, and any runners return to TOI base. So, is the BR's out effective immediately, thereby eliminating the force out at 2B, so R1 will be returned to 1B? Or is the BR's out assessed only after action ends, in which case R1 is forced out?

Had a JV game yesterday. I had the Dish. First batter gets a base hit. Second batter comes up. F1 Double Sets. I call a Balk. Coach comes out. Coach: Rolo, what did he do? Me: Bruce, he double set Coach: That's his normal routine. He double sets all the time. Me: I will call it everytime Coach: That's a bunch of crap. If he does it all the time then it is ok. Me: Not with me behind the plate. Coach goes back to dugout.