Umpire Interference

[Guest KTP]

Just happened last night. A hitter hits a ball to the gap between 3rd and Short.  My 3rd baseman makes a great snag and turns to throw.  Ump is standing in the throw line.  My player throws it over his head which puts it over my first baseman's head.  Anyone know if there is a rule on this?

[noumpere]

Yes, there is a rule.

Just in case you want to know the ruling:  Play on.  It's NOT umpire interference

[JonnyCat]

It could be a lot of things, but it is not a rule violation. It's nothing, play on. Umpire interference can only happen in 2 specific instances. This is not one of them.

[Guest KTP]

16 minutes ago, noumpere said:

Yes, there is a rule.

Just in case you want to know the ruling:  Play on.  It's NOT umpire interference

What if my player turns, fires the ball, and hits the ump?

[JonnyCat]

Still nothing. Live ball, play on.

[noumpere]

3 minutes ago, Guest KTP said:

What if my player turns, fires the ball, and hits the ump?

Except for two specific cases, players are expected to play around the umpires.

[beerguy55]

1 hour ago, Guest KTP said:

What if my player turns, fires the ball, and hits the ump?

Depends if he did it on purpose or not to whether he and his coach get to retire to the parking lot, and miss some other part of the season.

It happens...sometimes you just need to adjust.     Most (not all) of the time a quick shuffle to the left solves the problem.

The number of times this type of thing happens will be offset by the number of times you get a fortuitous bounce off an umpire in your favor.  

How many times has your pitcher thrown a wild pitch that hit the umpire's leg preventing their base runner on third from scoring?

It happens, it's bad/good luck - and it all evens out.