HR - Missed bag

[Thunderheads]

Well ....

It finally happened ..........to ME!

Varsity non-conference-bases
Bottom of 2, ....home teams F3 crushes one to left ....I pause, read, and go in to pivot and watch him touch first .....before he gets there I noticed his kind of hopping up and down watching the ball making sure it goes over the fence....and COMPLETELY misses first ....completely! As I go to follow him I glance back quickly and see the visiting team head coach pop up from the dug-out onto the top step.  Uh oh....

He continues and in my head I'm thinking ...."ok, he's going to stop and go back" ....nope ...I take him to second, and I see my partner standing a little closer to 3rd than the library and signals that he'll take him in .....

I jog back to my position and here the VC say .... guys, throw it to first ........throw it to first.

In my head in the seconds that follow I think:  He's out, and I have a EJ coming!  Then I thought ... can I sell a 'safe' here to make it easy?  Decision: No.  They throw over, and I bang him out. (all the while thinking ....here it comes!)

NOT A PEEP!!  And this head coach makes no qualms about coming out and asking questions ..... he never left the bench!

The first base coach says ...."he missed it?"  I said: "Not even close"

So there it is .... it happened to me!  On a HR, base umpire's responsibility is super simple ....... watch them touch the bases  

[grayhawk]

2 minutes ago, Thunderheads said:

Well ....

It finally happened ..........to ME!

Varsity non-conference-bases
Bottom of 2, ....home teams F3 crushes one to left ....I pause, read, and go in to pivot and watch him touch first .....before he gets there I noticed his kind of hopping up and down watching the ball making sure it goes over the fence....and COMPLETELY misses first ....completely! As I go to follow him I glance back quickly and see the visiting team head coach pop up from the dug-out onto the top step.  Uh oh....

He continues and in my head I'm thinking ...."ok, he's going to stop and go back" ....nope ...I take him to second, and I see my partner standing a little closer to 3rd than the library and signals that he'll take him in .....

I jog back to my position and here the VC say .... guys, throw it to first ........throw it to first.

In my head in the seconds that follow I think:  He's out, and I have a EJ coming!  Then I thought ... can I sell a 'safe' here to make it easy?  Decision: No.  They throw over, and I bang him out. (all the while thinking ....here it comes!)

NOT A PEEP!!  And this head coach makes no qualms about coming out and asking questions ..... he never left the bench!

The first base coach says ...."he missed it?"  I said: "Not even close"

So there it is .... it happened to me!  On a HR, base umpire's responsibility is super simple ....... watch them touch the bases  

Great job and good reminder.  Keep your eyes on the ball to help with the HR, but not at the expense of your primary responsibility to watch the touch at first.  I am assuming that it was your sparkling reputation that kept OC in the dugout...

[Ironhead17]

Here, I think we're the only state - SC, we've got to make the call ourselves without appeal. Same thing happened but not a peep from anyone so I let it ride. It had no bearing on a game in which the home team was getting pounded. Hopefully we get back to making the defense appeal but until then it's on us.

[noumpere]

I saw a runner miss second on a first-to-third single last night.  No appeal.

 

He was F9 so I told him before the start of the next inning that it was customary to touch second on your way by.  He said he knew he missed it and was expecting an appeal.

[Thunderheads]

Great job and good reminder.  Keep your eyes on the ball to help with the HR, but not at the expense of your primary responsibility to watch the touch at first.  I am assuming that it was your sparkling reputation that kept OC in the dugout...

Well, I have had this team four or five times prior to yesterday's game, so I'm going to give that a huge maybe! :-) thanks Steve

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[scrounge]

1 minute ago, noumpere said:

I saw a runner miss second on a first-to-third single last night.  No appeal.

 

He was F9 so I told him before the start of the next inning that it was customary to touch second on your way by.  He said he knew he missed it and was expecting an appeal.

 

Had something similar earlier this year that totally p***ed me off. R2, 1 out, deep fly ball to right center. R2 clearly leaves early, 2B is telling his pitcher to 'hey, step off, he left early'. Inexplicably, pitcher just blows him off but he keeps it up. Then, pitcher waves him off, saying "forget it, I don't want to". I didn't respond or change my body language, but right after the next pitch when it was finally moot, I told the pitcher "should have listened to your fielder". Freakin' kids, leaving outs out there.

[maven]

1 minute ago, scrounge said:

 

Had something similar earlier this year that totally p***ed me off. R2, 1 out, deep fly ball to right center. R2 clearly leaves early, 2B is telling his pitcher to 'hey, step off, he left early'. Inexplicably, pitcher just blows him off but he keeps it up. Then, pitcher waves him off, saying "forget it, I don't want to". I didn't respond or change my body language, but right after the next pitch when it was finally moot, I told the pitcher "should have listened to your fielder". Freakin' kids, leaving outs out there.

If this was a HS game, as BU why not just say to F4, "Time! What's that?"

"He left early..."

"You're saying the runner on 2B left early?"

"Yes!"

"Yes he did! He's out!"

You gotta love the dead-ball appeal.

[scrounge]

24 minutes ago, maven said:

If this was a HS game, as BU why not just say to F4, "Time! What's that?"

"He left early..."

"You're saying the runner on 2B left early?"

"Yes!"

"Yes he did! He's out!"

You gotta love the dead-ball appeal.

Oooh, that's what I should have done. I was just flabbergasted that the pitcher would flat-out blow off his 2B trying to get a free out.

[lawump]

1 hour ago, Ironhead17 said:

Here, I think we're the only state - SC, we've got to make the call ourselves without appeal.

This should change next year.

[Rich Ives]

1 hour ago, Thunderheads said:

 

The first base coach says ...."he missed it?"  I said: "Not even close"   "Why weren't you watching"

 

 

[maven]

1 hour ago, lawump said:

This should change next year.

[noumpere]

6 hours ago, maven said:

If this was a HS game, as BU why not just say to F4, "Time! What's that?"

"He left early..."

"You're saying the runner on 2B left early?"

"Yes!"

"Yes he did! He's out!"

You gotta love the dead-ball appeal.

I've used similar questions / language several times.  Sometimes it's as easy as "Time! -- What are you trying to do?"

 

Easy out, and no one has ever complained.
 

[ALStripes17]

I've used similar questions / language several times.  Sometimes it's as easy as "Time! -- What are you trying to do?"

 

Easy out, and no one has ever complained.

 

I love that...

" Time! What do you need (Coach)?"

"He left early yada yada yada"

"You right" (out baby!!!)

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