Bucket List Call

[Vegas_Ump]

Most Little League umpires wonder if they will ever see the dreaded 7.13 "Poof!" play.  But I had an equal rarity in a District Tournament.

R2, R3, 1 out.  I am U3 in a four-man crew.

B4 hits a weak popup behind 1B near the line;  F4 and F3 are aggressively trying to get under it.

R3 tags up figuring he had a chance for a sac fly.  

R2 thinks there's two outs, so he's running like a scalded dog.

The whole stadium was watching the catch attempt (which failed), but I guess I was the only one who saw R2 pass R3!  Even the coacher didn't see it!

I'm calling R2 out for passing, and when the ball drops, R2 and R3 touch home.  After the mayhem settles, I call time and go to the PU.  We then go to the scorers table and inform them of the ruling:  Only 1 run scores, and there are now two out, B4 on 2B.  Scoreboard corrected, much to the chagrin of the Offensive team.

There wasn't a lot of griping!  But you could hear a pin drop, as nobody else had ever seen that call before!

Mike

Las Vegas

[SeeingEyeDog]

This isn't what you asked, Vegas but...

I would like to step into my hot-tub umpire time machine and set the controls for...October 9, 1996...Yankee Stadium...and get that call correct.

~Dog

[Vegas_Ump]

Was that the fan interference no-call?

[Rich Ives]

22 hours ago, Vegas_Ump said:

Was that the fan interference no-call?

Looked good to me. 

 

 

[kylejt]

I love 7.13, and hope they never change it. 

I've had two poof plays, and the bases loaded triple, where the BR gets thrown out diving back to third. That one was even better than a poof play. 

And the bases loaded single, that gets by the outfielder. Oh, that was fun to explain. 

And every time the leaving early has  nothing to do with the play, But, dems da rules, and there's a flag on the ground, so..................

[SeeingEyeDog]

On 7/31/2020 at 7:36 PM, Vegas_Ump said:

Was that the fan interference no-call?

Yes...sorry, for my late response. I missed the notification on this.

~Dog

[ArchAngel72]

Had one on Saturday  10 yr olds LL rules

 

Had bases loaded several times and 2 times I had a runner on 3rd who was antsy as all heck jumping off WAY before the ball reached the batter.  Like off the bag with the release from the pitcher, That far ahead.  So I toss my red flag, couple of times I just dropped it beside me then I decide well the base coach is not seeing it and no one is telling him so I tossed it between him and 3rd.  He got the hint.   I was deathly afraid i was gonna get a ball 4 and then have to POOF the runner.    After he saw me picking up my flag he recognized it and started telling every kid stop jumping the gun.  

It was the VT coach and they were down but rallying back in the 4th so I did not want to try to explain what a Poof was to them.. 

 

the pitching in this game with the 2nd set of pitchers got so bad one skipped off the plate and the PU called it a strike.. NO ONE in the stands said a word I was amazed but they all saw how bad it was..  sigh.. 

 

[Jimurray]

32 minutes ago, ArchAngel72 said:

Had one on Saturday  10 yr olds LL rules

 

Had bases loaded several times and 2 times I had a runner on 3rd who was antsy as all heck jumping off WAY before the ball reached the batter.  Like off the bag with the release from the pitcher, That far ahead.  So I toss my red flag, couple of times I just dropped it beside me then I decide well the base coach is not seeing it and no one is telling him so I tossed it between him and 3rd.  He got the hint.   I was deathly afraid i was gonna get a ball 4 and then have to POOF the runner.    After he saw me picking up my flag he recognized it and started telling every kid stop jumping the gun.  

It was the VT coach and they were down but rallying back in the 4th so I did not want to try to explain what a Poof was to them.. 

 

the pitching in this game with the 2nd set of pitchers got so bad one skipped off the plate and the PU called it a strike.. NO ONE in the stands said a word I was amazed but they all saw how bad it was..  sigh.. 

 

I don’t think you poof the runner if he scores on ball 4 bases loaded. 

[Aging_Arbiter]

poof is only an infield hit with runner off of the base

[ousafe]

You also don't poof the runner on HBP.

[ArchAngel72]

Yep I was thinking that it always happened but on a walk or HBP its forcing him/her in anyway.