LL Coaches Challenge

[Velho]

Curious how these coach's challenges go and if the coaches are missing the best technique. Anyone have insight?

On this one for example, I wonder if the coach went straight to challenge vs asking PU to get help. What did he challenge? It appears OOB is challengeable since "all plays at bases to get a runner or runner-batter out" are reviewable.

 

 

[The Man in Blue]

Tangent . . . 

Three feet to avoid a tag attempt

VS.

Three feet in avoiding a tag attempt

 

I would say he was within three feet of his path to avoid the tag attempt . . . but after successfully avoiding it went more than three feet from his original basepath (basepath resets).  I've got safe and no violation.

 

And no, coaches at that level rarely use the best strategy.  They just want to challenge because that is what they do in the big leagues and they don't normally get this chance!  It's the same as my story about shutting a coach down on a call I very possibly missed . . . but he didn't ask me to go for help, he asked if he could challenge it.  I said no.  He walked away.  Not my problem (or fault) at that point.  I would have been happy to go for help because I knew I got screened on it.  KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR.

[JonnyCat]

When I did San Bernardino in 2022, during the pre-tournament walk-throughs and umpire orientations, they told us if a coach asks, just go straight to review. They told us the replay officials will decide on whether it's re-viewable or not. They didn't want us wasting time getting our crew together. It was fine to get your crew together on things such as, if you had a questions of where a runner was on a ball thrown out of play to get the base award right, things like that. 

But if a coach would ask, go straight to replay. In fact, you could prompt them as well. "You wanna re-play that?" I'm assuming they taught the coaches in the same manner.

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It's ESPN's show. That much they explicitly told us.