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Guest Douglas
I enjoy your website, and frequently review your articles and the comments for rules clarifications. I ran into a unique situation this past weekend, and wanted to get your take on it because I do not find a rule that specifically addresses what happened. Here goes:
A batter on my team was at the plate during the middle of an at-bat. The count was 1-1, but the batter incorrectly thought that he had 2 strikes. The next pitch was thrown, which was a strike. The batter believed that he had struck out, jogged to the dugout, went inside, and put his bat up. This is occurring in real time, so while my batter was jogging to the dugout, I was asking the umpire what the count was and telling him that I thought there was only 2 strikes on the batter. Before responding to me to let me know what the count was, and without saying anything to my batter who the umpire is watching jog to the dugout, the umpire waits for him to walk inside the dugout and then calls the better out. The umpire said that once the batter went inside the dugout, even if the batter was incorrect about the count, he was out.
I played baseball through high school and 4 years of college. I've coached youth baseball now for over a decade. I understand that a runner, after reaching base, may give himself up by leaving the base and walking into the dugout; however, even if/when that unique situation has occurred in the past, if a mistake was made by either the player or the umpire, the umpire put the runner back on base. I have never seen an umpire call a batter out for mistakingly thinking that he had 3 strikes and had struck out during the middle of an at bat and, all the while, never saying anything to the batter as he jogged away or anything to me, the coach, as I was asking the umpire to tell me the correct count.
Help me out here. If you can point me to a rule, I would appreciate it.
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aaluck
Ridiculous. Please tell us you are joking. What age group? What rule set...not that it matters? Never heard of that. Fed rules read: “i. on a dropped third strike, he gives up by entering the be
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It’s difficult to point you to a rule since you did not tell us which rule set your game was played under. So, here are the rules I think would apply from three codes. In Little League there are manda
Aging_Arbiter
Still, it sounds like the umpire may be confusing application of the "abandonment", and possibly, rule sets. My guess would be that since this is U11, the umpire was fairly new, and hasn't learned ye
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