Complete Screw-Up

[JamesC]

Ok, after reading the thread about the BU picking up an overthrow from F2 with runners on 1st and 3rd, this made me want to tell you guys a story I was told from a fellow umpire a few weeks back.

Local high school association (not mine) that has somewhat of a reputation of being not so great!

R1, R3, 0 outs. Pitcher is struggling and the HC comes out of the dugout and gives the generic "hand up" to the umpire. We've all seen it, and know he is frustrated and wants time. Well, he continues on, talks to his pitcher for a moment, and then takes the ball from him. Pitcher walks to dugout as the HC is waiting for his reliever to come in. Coach is standing there holding the baseball and BU says out loud, "Coach, we did not give you time out!" Coach looks at BU in amazement and was like "WHAT?!" Well, the coach at 3rd knew how these umpires were so he just tells his runners to GO!

R1 and R3 both take off for second and the plate respectively; however, not at the same time. Coach just throws the ball to the plate and the PU calls the runner out. F2 then throws to 2nd as R1 slides in under the tag. Coaches are pissed as the umpires get together and decide to allow both runners to advance 1 base as the coach did not get time out.

[Guest]

Ok, after reading the thread about the BU picking up an overthrow from F2 with runners on 1st and 3rd, this made me want to tell you guys a story I was told from a fellow umpire a few weeks back.

Local high school association (not mine) that has somewhat of a reputation of being not so great!

R1, R3, 0 outs. Pitcher is struggling and the HC comes out of the dugout and gives the generic "hand up" to the umpire. We've all seen it, and know he is frustrated and wants time. Well, he continues on, talks to his pitcher for a moment, and then takes the ball from him. Pitcher walks to dugout as the HC is waiting for his reliever to come in. Coach is standing there holding the baseball and BU says out loud, "Coach, we did not give you time out!" Coach looks at BU in amazement and was like "WHAT?!" Well, the coach at 3rd knew how these umpires were so he just tells his runners to GO!

R1 and R3 both take off for second and the plate respectively; however, not at the same time. Coach just throws the ball to the plate and the PU calls the runner out. F2 then throws to 2nd as R1 slides in under the tag. Coaches are pissed as the umpires get together and decide to allow both runners to advance 1 base as the coach did not get time out.

One time, during an exhibition game, the final warm up pitch of an inning bounced away from F2 and rolled to my feet. I scooped it and chucked it down to 2B - on a line, landing about 6 inches off the ground without bouncing right into the glove of F6.

Too bad there were no scouts in the stands :violin:

[Umpire in Chief]

Ok, after reading the thread about the BU picking up an overthrow from F2 with runners on 1st and 3rd, this made me want to tell you guys a story I was told from a fellow umpire a few weeks back.

Local high school association (not mine) that has somewhat of a reputation of being not so great!

R1, R3, 0 outs. Pitcher is struggling and the HC comes out of the dugout and gives the generic "hand up" to the umpire. We've all seen it, and know he is frustrated and wants time. Well, he continues on, talks to his pitcher for a moment, and then takes the ball from him. Pitcher walks to dugout as the HC is waiting for his reliever to come in. Coach is standing there holding the baseball and BU says out loud, "Coach, we did not give you time out!" Coach looks at BU in amazement and was like "WHAT?!" Well, the coach at 3rd knew how these umpires were so he just tells his runners to GO!

R1 and R3 both take off for second and the plate respectively; however, not at the same time. Coach just throws the ball to the plate and the PU calls the runner out. F2 then throws to 2nd as R1 slides in under the tag. Coaches are pissed as the umpires get together and decide to allow both runners to advance 1 base as the coach did not get time out.

WTF??? At the point the coach gets across the line, much less grabs the ball, time should be implied. The umps should not have allowed that.

[BrianC14]

Ok, after reading the thread about the BU picking up an overthrow from F2 with runners on 1st and 3rd, this made me want to tell you guys a story I was told from a fellow umpire a few weeks back.

Local high school association (not mine) that has somewhat of a reputation of being not so great!

R1, R3, 0 outs. Pitcher is struggling and the HC comes out of the dugout and gives the generic "hand up" to the umpire. We've all seen it, and know he is frustrated and wants time. Well, he continues on, talks to his pitcher for a moment, and then takes the ball from him. Pitcher walks to dugout as the HC is waiting for his reliever to come in. Coach is standing there holding the baseball and BU says out loud, "Coach, we did not give you time out!" Coach looks at BU in amazement and was like "WHAT?!" Well, the coach at 3rd knew how these umpires were so he just tells his runners to GO!

R1 and R3 both take off for second and the plate respectively; however, not at the same time. Coach just throws the ball to the plate and the PU calls the runner out. F2 then throws to 2nd as R1 slides in under the tag. Coaches are pissed as the umpires get together and decide to allow both runners to advance 1 base as the coach did not get time out.

Gee, I can't imagine why.

This is your umpire.

This your umpire on drugs.

Any questions?

:violin:

[yawetag]

One time, during an exhibition game, the final warm up pitch of an inning bounced away from F2 and rolled to my feet. I scooped it and chucked it down to 2B - on a line, landing about 6 inches off the ground without bouncing right into the glove of F6.

Too bad there were no scouts in the stands

Nice! Beats my story from Saturday.

Home team warming up just after the plate meeting. I'm standing near 1B, talking to the 1B coach for the away team. I watch F6 throw a ball that's an obvious short hop. It goes off the top of F3's glove and deflects at a fairly quick speed; I snag it without flinching.

[BrianC14]

Nice! Beats my story from Saturday.

Home team warming up just after the plate meeting. I'm standing near 1B, talking to the 1B coach for the away team. I watch F6 throw a ball that's an obvious short hop. It goes off the top of F3's glove and deflects at a fairly quick speed; I snag it without flinching.

Sweet!

I snagged one like that once. Only with no hands. Really! Early season; UIC and myself and coaches are looking over over some snow/ice that hadn't melted in a shadow area in front of the visitor's dugout, discussing how we ground rule this area. Home teams taking warmups. and F5 air mails one... POW! Right in the back of the head. The weird thing... I had just moments before suggested we move away from the 'danger zone'. :nod:

Edited April 13, 2010 by BrianC14

[Guest]

Nice! Beats my story from Saturday.

Home team warming up just after the plate meeting. I'm standing near 1B, talking to the 1B coach for the away team. I watch F6 throw a ball that's an obvious short hop. It goes off the top of F3's glove and deflects at a fairly quick speed; I snag it without flinching.

Hey, right on!

I've also been known on occasion to scoop foul balls from A / P2 or dead ball overthrows from the catcher (or PU!) to F1 when runners are on.

[DirtyDawg]

I had some high school girls warming up in the outfield one time between innings and when the ball was thrown down the right fielder hurled the ball to the first base coach, only one problem, she forgot to look before she threw. I felt the wind come off the ball and heard the seems cutting across the wind as out of the corner of my eye a blur of yellow passes by and safely into the visiting team's dugout.

[mstaylor]

Ok, after reading the thread about the BU picking up an overthrow from F2 with runners on 1st and 3rd, this made me want to tell you guys a story I was told from a fellow umpire a few weeks back.

Local high school association (not mine) that has somewhat of a reputation of being not so great!

R1, R3, 0 outs. Pitcher is struggling and the HC comes out of the dugout and gives the generic "hand up" to the umpire. We've all seen it, and know he is frustrated and wants time. Well, he continues on, talks to his pitcher for a moment, and then takes the ball from him. Pitcher walks to dugout as the HC is waiting for his reliever to come in. Coach is standing there holding the baseball and BU says out loud, "Coach, we did not give you time out!" Coach looks at BU in amazement and was like "WHAT?!" Well, the coach at 3rd knew how these umpires were so he just tells his runners to GO!

R1 and R3 both take off for second and the plate respectively; however, not at the same time. Coach just throws the ball to the plate and the PU calls the runner out. F2 then throws to 2nd as R1 slides in under the tag. Coaches are pissed as the umpires get together and decide to allow both runners to advance 1 base as the coach did not get time out.

Dear God, where do they get these guys and how are they allowed to umpire baseball?

I recently ran into to guys, one as an emplyee of mine, one as a coach that tell me I probably umpired with their dads. Upon finding out, I had and they were two of the worst umpires to grace the grass. I quoted one the other day in another thread, he hated baseball but loved to umpire.