Wierdest thing to Happen on Field?

[Ros@]

I was the only Ump at a minor league game.

After BR failed to reach 2nd base, and was called out, he bursted into tears and took the base with him......

'I won't let you guys play with my daddy's stuff if you keep on playing nasty with me!' He shouted on his way to the dugout.

[BigUmpire]

I was the only Ump at a minor league game.

After BR failed to reach 2nd base, and was called out, he bursted into tears and took the base with him......

'I won't let you guys play with my daddy's stuff if you keep on playing nasty with me!' He shouted on his way to the dugout.

TOOOO Funny!

[Umpiresoftball]

I was working the stick in a 15U game last season.  Parents were sitting in lawn/camp chairs behind the backstop from one side to the other.  One of the mothers brought a beautiful black Lab with her to watch her son's game.  The dog was well behaved in that we heard not one bark out of her.  However, she must have quickly caught on to the game of baseball because smack dab in the middle of an inning, she somehow got loose and ran from behind the backstop, around first base onto second, rounded second and headed to third, rounded third and half-way between home and third she decided that was the most appropriate place to squat and lay down a "base" of her own.  Needless to say, the entire field thought this was funny.  My partner and I, not so much.  I'm pretty sure the owner didn't see this "play" as funny as others.  If fact, she probably experienced as much embarassment as the kids experienced humor. Good thing she, the owner of the dog, came equipped with a plastice bag. After dog's owner "cleaned the plate", she received a round of applause and the game proceeded without further incident. 

That kind of funny though, btw the dog left you guys a present or she/he was telling you they didn't like your call? I am a dog person so don't mind me.

[UmpK]

High school softball.  Game was delayed 5-10 minutes while a loose Boxer puppy ran all over the field with 10-15 girls trying to catch it.  Fans, coaches and umpires laughing our butts off watching those kids trying to catch that lovable pup.  Pup finally ran off the field and the chase continued in the parking lot.  The coaches did have to call back several players. Too funny, UHTBT. 

[Jocko]

Super NIT in Louisiana. And let me say, if you've never called in La, it's a different world. I was working 13 or 14u. F5 airmails one over F3 and OOP. Time. Award bases. In Cajun French, F3 is tearing F5 a new one. F5, having heard enough, looks at F3 and loudly says, "Will you shut the f**k up?!?"

Noone said a word to him, so it was obvious this is accetaboe TO THEM. I spoke to the coach and told him anymore of that and its adios amigo. He informed me it was status quo. Umm....not on my field.

*NOTE* They sold boudin, shrimp creole, and beer in the confession stand. Love working in La.

[Typhoon]

*NOTE* They sold boudin, shrimp creole, and beer in the confession stand. Love working in La.

Jeez when I go to the confession stand all I get is 5 Hail Marys

[bluejerred]

Calling a 12U game.  F6 gets trucked by the runner going from 2nd to 3rd.  I'm working solo and the play isn't anywhere near there so I don't see the collision.  F6 is slow to get up and one of the coaches goes out to help him out.  He starts complaining that his shoulder hurts.  What I see next takes every last shred of discipline that I have to not laugh out loud - the coach takes a page right out of "The Karate Kid" when Miyagi rubs his hands together and uses what looks like tantric healing on Daniel-san  .  The coach does the whole thing - rubs his hands together and works F6 shoulder to try and make it feel better.    Kid ended up coming out for the rest of the game so I guess the coach didn't see the movie enough to get the technique right.

[Texas Manny]

I was working a NCAA Division II game in Albany, NY on a very cold spring day. The catcher called for a pitch-out, and the pitcher missed the sign and threw it right down broadway. It hit me untouched, square in the nutty buddy and split my cup in two. I fell backwards about 3 feet and took about 2-3 minutes to regain composure. Never had that happen again.

 

I also had a hot air ballon fly over the field, and the participants thought it would be fun to just hang there and watch the game from overhead. Needless to say we had to stop the game and ask them to move to another spot to watch before we could continue play again.

 

I've had birds and bats dive bomb. That's about it.

[Larry in TN]

I also had a hot air ballon fly over the field, and the participants thought it would be fun to just hang there and watch the game from overhead. Needless to say we had to stop the game and ask them to move to another spot to watch before we could continue play again.

 

You think that they can control their movement across the ground in one of those things?    

[Texas Manny]

 

I also had a hot air ballon fly over the field, and the participants thought it would be fun to just hang there and watch the game from overhead. Needless to say we had to stop the game and ask them to move to another spot to watch before we could continue play again.

 

You think that they can control their movement across the ground in one of those things?  

 

They did. They stopped over the field and hovered. No wind. They moved themselves with a little electric engine. Never saw one in a ballon before, but they had it.

[plateumpire]

A mini "tornado" went through the field in my game yesterday. It really did look very much like one. It was a small tube of dust spinning across the field. 

[Texas Manny]

Here in Texas, those are called Dust devils. (I don't capitalize his name).

[Platejob29]

Last year I was directing a tournament and someone told me there was an emergency on one of the fields but didn't say what it was. When I get to the field I see an armadillo running around the field. The PU, who I know really well and is one of the funniest guys I know, rushes over to the coach on the 1B side and grabs the bucket he was sitting on dumped out the balls and chased the armadillo down. When he finally got it into the bucket he did his best impersonation from call of the wild man. Later on the same day during the championship game another armadillo got on the field and we couldn't chase it down. I told the coaches to tell their parents I would be right back and not to freak out when I got back. I ran to my car got out my .22 varmint gun and came back to the field. When I got back the coaches already had pulled all the players off the field and into the spectator area. I shot the armadillo (sorry PETA) picked him up with a trash bag and then started the game back up. Surprisingly no one thought a thing about it and acted like it was completely normal to have to shoot an armadillo during a game. That's the only time we've ever had any problems with armadillos coming out during a game or during the day for that matter.

[catcher]

This didn't happen to me, but a friend was working an 11u game this spring when the batter suddenly went "oh no, oh no" and something drbbled down his leg. The kid learned his lesson- I had the same team's next game and we had a 2 min bathroom delay before the kid's at-bat.

[MB_Ump]

This didn't happen to me, but a friend was working an 11u game this spring when the batter suddenly went "oh no, oh no" and something drbbled down his leg. The kid learned his lesson- I had the same team's next game and we had a 2 min bathroom delay before the kid's at-bat.

I had one like this where the batter came to the plate with his shirt untucked. I started to tell him to tuck in his shirt, but the manager got my attention. He wanted to tell me that his player had gotten a bonus when he had farted and his shirt was untucked to hide the evidence. Did not smell good around the plate for that at bat...

[Scratch Franzeo]

Last year I was directing a tournament and someone told me there was an emergency on one of the fields but didn't say what it was. When I get to the field I see an armadillo running around the field. The PU, who I know really well and is one of the funniest guys I know, rushes over to the coach on the 1B side and grabs the bucket he was sitting on dumped out the balls and chased the armadillo down. When he finally got it into the bucket he did his best impersonation from call of the wild man. Later on the same day during the championship game another armadillo got on the field and we couldn't chase it down. I told the coaches to tell their parents I would be right back and not to freak out when I got back. I ran to my car got out my .22 varmint gun and came back to the field. When I got back the coaches already had pulled all the players off the field and into the spectator area. I shot the armadillo (sorry PETA) picked him up with a trash bag and then started the game back up. Surprisingly no one thought a thing about it and acted like it was completely normal to have to shoot an armadillo during a game. That's the only time we've ever had any problems with armadillos coming out during a game or during the day for that matter.

HEY ... That was me! "Yee Yee Yee Live Action!!"

A fan recorded the whole thing on his phone. He tweeted the video to to Turtleman and to Sports Center (I guess it had a chance of making the NOT Top 10)

[Richvee]

Last year we had a 5-10 minute delay while a black bear made his was out of the woods and decided to mosey around deep left field for a while. (no fence). HT coach said he's far enough away, he won't bother anybody, we can still play. Everybody else on or near the field said in unison...."No we can't". 

[iankelleyumpire]

I was waiting between pitches once and a foul ball from another field shot right over two fences and drilled me. No one knew where this random ball came from. After that, next pitch, what happens? I get hit with that ball too. Awesome inning. 

[ricka56]

Last year I was directing a tournament and someone told me there was an emergency on one of the fields but didn't say what it was. When I get to the field I see an armadillo running around the field....I ran to my car got out my .22 varmint gun and came back to the field...I shot the armadillo .

@Platejob29 Why did the PU need the TD? If umpires don't have Turtle Man skills (@Shawn Franzeo), then they need to be properly equipped. This piece of equipment is always in my ballbag...works on quadruped varmints and bi-pedals alike.

[Scratch Franzeo]

Last year I was directing a tournament and someone told me there was an emergency on one of the fields but didn't say what it was. When I get to the field I see an armadillo running around the field....I ran to my car got out my .22 varmint gun and came back to the field...I shot the armadillo .

@Platejob29 Why did the PU need the TD? If umpires don't have Turtle Man skills (@Shawn Franzeo), then they need to be properly equipped. This piece of equipment is always in my ballbag...works on quadruped varmints and bi-pedals alike.

My partner that day, @wbeene13, and I both carry what we call friends in our cars. My partner had a few issues with us opening fire on the field as he claims to be some sort of police officer. So we decided to catch the little critter and let him loose in the fields behind the park.

[ricka56]

If my TD is availing himself of his CHL,  then I (being of limited umpire skills) am availing myself of mine too.

[Pete Peterson Sr]

Here in Texas, those are called Dust devils. (I don't capitalize his name).

 

 Isn't "his" name Satan, and "devil" is merely his position ?

[loopdude]

A very very long while back, I was umpiring a mens recreational game. Lowest league here, my partner a cool cuban friend of mine. middle of the inning, all of a sudden he calls time really loud, next second he pulls out his cell phone and starts talking for about 2-3 minutes. Everybody had the WTF-face on. After he hangs up, in his hispanic accent he says "ey, ya know, it wasa mya girlfriend ey" as if everybody would have done the same. turns out his girlfriend was on the way to the field and needed directions.

If that would happen today, I would have tested how far his phone can be thrown. And I would go down as the umpire who ejected the umpire.

[Stan W.]

Lets see.....

 

• Rattlesnakes on the field sunning themselves....
• Rattlesnakes in the dugout
• Cow loose from her field and wanders across the outfield...........(ok tho, outfield country boys just herded her off the field and back to her pasture...
• Young partner who consumed about 3 hotdogs between a DH on a 100 degree day,........does the expected upchuck....
• Older partner who disappeared after the 2nd inning..........comes walking back on at the 6th.....said he had to "lay down a while, it was too hot for him".....wanted his game fee of course...
• Got this call, that our umpire left the field and came back 40 minutes later....said he went home to go to the bathroom...
• Got  this call, that our umpire left the field, got in his car and left......never said a word, no one knew why, never called us back, never attended another meeting....later on we heard he " just quit"
• Not on the field, but in today's family dynamic, we had but a major MMA fight between the ex-wife and the new wife and the ex husband and the new boyfriend.......major ugly. moments, language and a first class beat down.......cops, paramedics ect...........we pulled teams off field ,. put them in the dugouts......waited it out, eventually suspended the game....   

[bama_ump]

The squirrel story metioned earlier brought back a funny memory for me. I was working bases of a college game and set up in C position when I heard a comotion coming from the third base dugout. The pitcher was on the rubber so i was locked in on him. But the comotion grew so loud I had to turn my head to see what was going on. Just as I was turning my head the pitcher came set and the dugout screams "Look out Blue!". I notice a big grey squirrel headed my way and he is closing ground quick! I am frozen and can't move. He apparently thinks I am a tree or statue and tries to climb my leg. I am shaking my leg trying to get the squirrel off my leg when I hear "crack"! Oh yeah, there is a ball game going on. As luck would have it, the batter hits a shot zeroed in on my head. Here I have a squirrel attached to my leg, I am doing the one legged hot foot dance, and NOW there is a missle headed for my head! My reflexes luckily kicked in and I ducked the baseball and the squirrel let go about the same time. The fans and my partners got a good 5 minute belly laugh out of it. Yes we had a 5 minute delay for everyone to regain their composure. The squirrel went to the RF fence and sat on the top rail watching the next 2 innings of ball.