Hello all, and thank you in advance for your replies I can't explain all that went on in yesterday's games, it would take me a lifetime
But to start, what is the proper mechanics and enforcement of calling a strike for a batter's failure to maintain one foot in the box between pitches?
This wasn't on my field, but it was described as the batter wandering down the line and taking some time getting back in the box after a routine pitch, for this he was warned. An exchange occurred, and the umpire issued the batter a warning for what I'll call "delay of game", for lack of a better term. Well, the player said something profane and was then warned for that as well. The next pitch is delivered, and again, the batter takes his time getting ready for the next pitch. The umpire then instructs the batter that wherever the next pitch is thrown, it is going to be a strike. Pitch comes. Of course, it's nowhere close, umpire makes his call, "Strike", batter loses his $#@@ so to speak, drops another profanity, and gets dumped as a result. Now, legitimate ejection, no doubt, but how about the enforcement of the called strike? I thought that when I read about this rule, the umpire would call a strike and a strike would be added to the count without the pitch being thrown, I don't call many NFHS games, that's why I don't know the correct enforcement at the NFHS level. but calling the obvious ball, a strike is always going to set the place ablaze.
The most interesting thing in my game was a LHP who, with R1 in place, decided he would go windup. He threw a pitch from the windup, and the runner didn't run. The next pitch. he threw from the stretch after the coach yelled at him to "go from the stretch". How soon did he forget because the third pitch, the LHP toes the rubber in the windup position. Now, I'm intrigued by his setup, so I'm pretty focused on his feet in how he's now set up for the next pitch In my fixation, apparently, there was a small hitch the hands, and R1 takes off for 2B. I'm single man, and watch the LHP step off correctly and throw to 2B where R1 is thrown out. The offensive coach wants the balk, I tell him, I have legal disengagement. I could have missed the hands, but on subsequent windup deliveries, I didn't see any real hitch of the hands while in the wind up. what I have learned from this one is that the hands can also be considered the start of the wind-up delivery. That's never really been anything I was explicitly watching for, so it's one more for the memory banks. IDK, maybe the coach made it up, again, I didn't see anything egregious in looking at the hands while in the windup. The coach, to further articulate his point mentioned something about "the pitcher's hesitation" which was also something I did not see. So there you go.
Thanks for the engagement. I look forward to the comedic relief as well as the detailed case book chronicals
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Hello all, and thank you in advance for your replies
I can't explain all that went on in yesterday's games, it would take me a lifetime
But to start, what is the proper mechanics and enforcement of calling a strike for a batter's failure to maintain one foot in the box between pitches?
This wasn't on my field, but it was described as the batter wandering down the line and taking some time getting back in the box after a routine pitch, for this he was warned. An exchange occurred, and the umpire issued the batter a warning for what I'll call "delay of game", for lack of a better term. Well, the player said something profane and was then warned for that as well. The next pitch is delivered, and again, the batter takes his time getting ready for the next pitch. The umpire then instructs the batter that wherever the next pitch is thrown, it is going to be a strike. Pitch comes. Of course, it's nowhere close, umpire makes his call, "Strike", batter loses his $#@@ so to speak, drops another profanity, and gets dumped as a result. Now, legitimate ejection, no doubt, but how about the enforcement of the called strike? I thought that when I read about this rule, the umpire would call a strike and a strike would be added to the count without the pitch being thrown, I don't call many NFHS games, that's why I don't know the correct enforcement at the NFHS level. but calling the obvious ball, a strike is always going to set the place ablaze.
The most interesting thing in my game was a LHP who, with R1 in place, decided he would go windup. He threw a pitch from the windup, and the runner didn't run. The next pitch. he threw from the stretch after the coach yelled at him to "go from the stretch". How soon did he forget because the third pitch, the LHP toes the rubber in the windup position. Now, I'm intrigued by his setup, so I'm pretty focused on his feet in how he's now set up for the next pitch In my fixation, apparently, there was a small hitch the hands, and R1 takes off for 2B. I'm single man, and watch the LHP step off correctly and throw to 2B where R1 is thrown out. The offensive coach wants the balk, I tell him, I have legal disengagement. I could have missed the hands, but on subsequent windup deliveries, I didn't see any real hitch of the hands while in the wind up. what I have learned from this one is that the hands can also be considered the start of the wind-up delivery. That's never really been anything I was explicitly watching for, so it's one more for the memory banks. IDK, maybe the coach made it up, again, I didn't see anything egregious in looking at the hands while in the windup. The coach, to further articulate his point mentioned something about "the pitcher's hesitation" which was also something I did not see. So there you go.
Thanks for the engagement. I look forward to the comedic relief as well as the detailed case book chronicals
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