turn left after running to 1st

[ArchAngel72]

SO a few weeks ago I had a LL team, coaches and all yelling tag him tag him tag him He turned left!.

 

I paused and explained turning left does not mean he tried to go to 2nd and the runner ACTUALLY NEEDS to make an effort to go to 2nd base to be considered in jeopardy of being tagged out.

I got the coaches oh we did not know that.

 

ugh

Last night I had the center fielder during a BABE RUTH GAME  yelling tag him tag him tag him he turned left. 

How do people grow up with some of these things?  I mean "come on man!"

Babe Ruth!

I stopped by the dugout when they swapped to offense ( 1st base side )  And asked why they thought turning left meant they were live and able to be tagged out.  One of them said "Well it happened to me the other night I turned left they tagged me and I was called out" 

UGH 2. 

I wish I knew the ump that did that.

But then again I was not there maybe the kid made a dip towards 2nd that looked like he was thinking of going to 2nd I was not there..  You know kids never lie right.

 

 

 

 

[MadMax]

41 minutes ago, ArchAngel72 said:

Well it happened to me the other night I turned left they tagged me and I was called out

Viral Umpiring. More transmissible than COVID. Every time an umpire misapplies a Rule or Makes S#!t Up, all the participants are affected (and we umpires are participants), and it’s carried to the next games.

[HokieUmp]

Can I let you in on a little secret?

This is not new.

Let me take you back, children.  All the way back through the hoary mists of time, to 1976.  Bell bottoms, sideburns down to the chin-line, all-metal cars with seatbelts no more than after-thoughts.  America was a younger country then.  A simpler country.

And in Mount Airy, Maryland, a young HokieUmp - neither a Hokie yet, nor an umpire, so actually a young [NAME REDACTED] - made it to first in some fashion that required over-running.  Being a left-hander in many aspects, he turned to his left to perform the 180 degree move to get back to 1B.

......where he was tagged and promptly called out.

They say HokieUmp stills roams the baseball diamonds of the world, calling safes and outs, balls and strikes, searching for the man who called him out that fateful day.  All so that he can finally say, "Hello.  My name is HokieUmp.  You called me out on a rules myth.  Prepare to die."

And the circle will be complete.

----------------

All of that to say, Arch, that the world is filled with f[REDACTED] idiots.  And they, somehow, breed faster than we do.  So we're doomed.

 

 

(And yes, I am aware that's not nearly as sexy of an origin story as "bitten by radioactive spider."  You work with what ya got.)

[BLWizzRanger]

4 minutes ago, HokieUmp said:

Can I let you in on a little secret?

This is not new.

Let me take you back, children.  All the way back through the hoary mists of time, to 1976.  Bell bottoms, sideburns down to the chin-line, all-metal cars with seatbelts no more than after-thoughts.  America was a younger country then.  A simpler country.

And in Mount Airy, Maryland, a young HokieUmp - neither a Hokie yet, nor an umpire, so actually a young [NAME REDACTED] - made it to first in some fashion that required over-running.  Being a left-hander in many aspects, he turned to his left to perform the 180 degree move to get back to 1B.

 

HokieUmp, you had sideburns, mutton chops, Fu-Man-Chu at that young age? Don't forget 18yo allowed you to be a participant at a kegger too...

[HokieUmp]

43 minutes ago, BLWizzRanger said:

HokieUmp, you had sideburns, mutton chops, Fu-Man-Chu at that young age? Don't forget 18yo allowed you to be a participant at a kegger too...

I was speaking more broadly at that point - with a .... "rhetorical flourish," if you will.  I turned 11 in '76 - I didn't know it at the time, but my facial hair of any kind was about 3-4 years away.

[SeeingEyeDog]

Yup, I'm a few years younger than you @HokieUmpbut, I remember one of my first LL coaches tell us in practice to turn right after reaching first base. He cited the rule for us and he knew the rule but, his logic was...there are some umpires out here who have been umpiring since the time when this was NOT the rule. Let's not put this decision in their hands in any way...please, turn right.

(Now I have to go and research the history of that rule and see when and if it was ever actually different and could it have been possible for umpires in the late 70's to have worked under the old rule...)

~Dawg

[ousafe]

Regarding MSU, I had a 14u travel coach tell me that carrying the bat all the way to first was illegal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[Senor Azul]

Mr. SeeingEyeDog, it is a myth now but from 1887 through 1909 there was a rule that a batter-runner was liable to be put out if he turned left after overrunning first base.

In 1887 a new rule (in rule 53, subparagraph 9) was introduced that said—

If, in over-running First Base, he also attempts to run to Second Base, or after passing the base he turns to his left from the foul line, he shall forfeit such exemption from being put out.

[agdz59]

Senor, do you entertain tours of your vast baseball library / archive? Very impressive. 

[MadMax]

22 hours ago, SeeingEyeDog said:

He cited the rule for us and he knew the rule but, his logic was...there are some umpires out here who have been umpiring since the time when this was NOT the rule.

 

18 hours ago, Senor Azul said:

it is a myth now but from 1887 through 1909 there was a rule

This just means that the rule was actually rescinded. If any umpires continued to call this, then they obviously didn’t read the memo or edition. 

And unfortunately, there wasn’t an Internet to carpet bomb umpires with these notifications via email blasts, tweets-from-twits, and “spirited” discussions on Facebook groups and other forums like this... 

... not that it really matters. I mean, look at today... 

[RBIbaseball]

On 6/3/2021 at 10:15 AM, HokieUmp said:

 

They say HokieUmp stills roams the baseball diamonds of the world, calling safes and outs, balls and strikes, searching for the man who called him out that fateful day.  All so that he can finally say, "Hello.  My name is HokieUmp.  You called me out on a rules myth.  Prepare to die."

And the circle will be complete.

 

9/10 . Needed a 6 fingered Ump reference. Great story, would  read again.