A coach, a player, AND an umpire

[th3]

I called an obvious infield fly in a 50/70 game this weekend - pretty high and between the mound and the 1st base line. As I called it the 3rd base coach yelled "you don't have to go"..the runner on 2nd listened but the one on 1st did not and got tagged off the base. As he trotted off the field, the 1st base coach says to me "I'm a player AND and umpire...and for the infield fly rule the infielder HAS to be camped out under it". I considered:

"#@&^! Really? Sorry man, its my 1st time out"

"That's the most rediculous thing I ever heard"

"Are you a good player at least?"

I just went with "Coach, I never even heard that one..."

[mstaylor]

It doesn't require him to be camped under it, it just has to be where he could camp under it.

[JaxRolo]

I called an obvious infield fly in a 50/70 game this weekend - pretty high and between the mound and the 1st base line. As I called it the 3rd base coach yelled "you don't have to go"..the runner on 2nd listened but the one on 1st did not and got tagged off the base. As he trotted off the field, the 1st base coach says to me "I'm a player AND and umpire...and for the infield fly rule the infielder HAS to be camped out under it". I considered:

"#@&^! Really? Sorry man, its my 1st time out"

"That's the most rediculous thing I ever heard"

"Are you a good player at least?"

I just went with "Coach, I never even heard that one..."

You should have said:

"I didn't think they had IFF in T-Ball Games!"

[carolinablue]

I had a game tonight that was excellent until the TOP of the seventh. It was a 5-2 game and for some reson the HC decided to start trying new pitchers. The inning ended up lasting 40 min. I tried every way I could to get strikes and outs but no help. Finally with bases loaded and one out, someone popped a ball up and I immediately called IFF. I didn't give a crap if it was ordinary effort or not, I was getting that out.

[cnelsoGA1]

Just to be clear, the verbeage in the rule book is "ordinary effort." Had to explain this to a coach as well, and since I sounded all official and such, he shut right up. :hopmad:

[Thunderheads]

I called an obvious infield fly in a 50/70 game this weekend - pretty high and between the mound and the 1st base line. As I called it the 3rd base coach yelled "you don't have to go"..the runner on 2nd listened but the one on 1st did not and got tagged off the base. As he trotted off the field, the 1st base coach says to me "I'm a player AND and umpire...and for the infield fly rule the infielder HAS to be camped out under it". I considered:

"#@&^! Really? Sorry man, its my 1st time out"

"That's the most rediculous thing I ever heard"

"Are you a good player at least?"

I just went with "Coach, I never even heard that one..."

Simple:

"that's not what the rulebook says coach" ....

[semper_fi_72]

He must be a outfielder, so he has no idea about a IFF :notworthy: