Umpire without a mask

[thinkingaboutumping]

Yeah, it's an intentional walk, but I don't think I've ever seen this anywhere else, let alone the World Series, it's at the 331:31:31 mark if it doesn't automatically load up...

 

[th3]

wtf??

[Rich Ives]

Yeah, it's an intentional walk, but I don't think I've ever seen this anywhere else, let alone the World Series, it's at the 331:31:31 mark if it doesn't automatically load up...

 

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[th3]

really? in  mlb on TV or in games that you work?

[Rich Ives]

really? in  mlb on TV or in games that you work?

 

In MLB games on TV. Also when at one.

[th3]

wow..i have to play closer attention

[ricka56]

No worries...MLB umpires have good medical/dental benefits.

[Jocko]

And he held his mask in his right hand (mask swap) :fuel:

[lawump]

I was working the American Legion state tournament a few years back.  We had one umpire, though he was a nice guy, who was totally lost.  He knew no 3 or 4 man mechanics...but it was worse than that; he clearly had never been formally trained.  After the first day of the tournament, the umpire-in-chief (who was hired by the state directors) tried to reason with the directors to allow him to be sent home, but they told our UIC that he had to stay because, "they needed someone from that part of the state."  Not only that, they told us that he had to, "work his one plate game." 

 

So before his first (and only) plate game, we (the three base umpires) told him, "to call balls and strikes, fair and fouls in front of the plate, and to not call anything else or go anywhere else, period."  [With no one on base, we planned to have the second base umpire stand in right center and have him come running in to take a throwback into first base should I (the first base umpire) go out on a fly ball down the line...and if U3 went out, then U2 would just have to run hard to get there before the B/R.]

 

Anyways, after giving myself the sign of the cross and praying that we escaped the game without a major incident, I took my spot in the "A" position.  As the pitcher began his wind-up to deliver the game's first pitch, I suddenly realized that something was seriously wrong.  I wasn't exactly sure what it was, but I knew that I had to call time.  So I yelled, "Time! Time! Time!" 

 

Everyone started staring at me.  My brain then caught up to my eyes I quickly comprehended what was wrong and I yelled, "Dave (name changed to protect the not-so-innocent) is something wrong," to my home plate umpire.  He looked at me with a strange look (like I had lost my marbles) and said, "no."  I said, "think about it."  He kept staring at me.  "Your mask, Dave, your mask." 

 

He then proceeded to run to the locker room to get his mask.

 

True story.

[Majordave]

Why you gotta out me like that?

Hahaha!

Seriously though, seen it before. Big games make some guys forgetful.

I've worked twice without shinguards but never without a mask.

[ricka56]

In my first year umpiring, I An umpire close to me (no training) left my his mask by my his water jug. With my his sunglasses on it didn't feel like I he was missing anything. After the first pitch, coach yells, "BLUE, aren't you gonna use your mask".

 

Me This umpire: "I wasn't going to, but I can tell that's putting you off, so ok, I'll use it".