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Guest Dave G
The home plate umpire for our 12U game also teaches lessons to the pitcher who pitched against us. The game was not close this time as this pitcher was pretty dominant this outing but there is a change we face the same team down the road with the same umpiring crew. This umpire also gives pitching lesson to 3 other players on this team.
I do not umpire and have wondered if anybody has encountered this situation. Even if you were not intentionally trying to be biased, human nature tells me close pitches would be of benefit to the pitcher.
I think if this is going to happen the umpire should at lest be up front of this information to the opposing team. We did not learn about this to after the game was over.
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Lou B
I also umpired games that my sons played in and would agree that if it was close I probably ruled against my sons so not to be accused of being biased!
Aging_Arbiter
I've been in with the same LL & district for 21 years. You get to know people. As @LRZ and @aaluck mentioned, it's youth baseball. I have coaches that brought their kids through the program, de
maven
What was the over/under on this game? The line? How much was at stake over all? Oh, just an amateur game? Sheesh, let the kids play. FWIW, I always favor the pitcher: pitching is hard. I'm
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