Run Scores, yeah right...

[Umpire in Chief]

On Sunday I had a NABA double header.

In the second game I was BU. We had a situation R3, 2 outs.

Ball is hit to F4 who makes a bad throw. F3 fields the ball 5+ feet towards home on the 1st base line and tags the approaching BR for the third out. No problem...

I go to my position in shallow right field as I turn around I see the OC having an animated discussion with my partner at the plate. I start coming in getting ready to round up the coach if he's sent packing. My partner took care of it well with no EJ. I head back.

I take my position in A the next inning and the coach starts pleading his case to me. His arguement was since the final out was a tag rather than a force the run should score.

I made the mistake of responding to him by saying, "For the run to count the batter must safely reach first." I thought I would be safe being straight to the point.

Off the coach went.. I heard about how he played minor league ball for several organizations, and got a career ending injury or else he'd be in the big leagues now, but he recovered to play independent minor league ball for a few more years... yadda yadda yadda... And everywhere he's played that run would have scored, we were wrong...

Luckily, the batter got a double and I got to go to C and didn't have to go back to A that half.

I found it funny how "with all his playing experience" he could get that easy one wrong.

[Bigdog]

Hey all,

That's about as bad as a rule interpretation by Joe Morgan or Tim He-who-shall-not-be-named!!

Bigdog:cool:

[mn_ump]

I love it when the coaches exaggerate. I was coaching my VFW team on Saturday. No out, R1, stealing second, bunt fielded by 3B. Throw to 1B goes into DBT. PU initially awards R1 home. I requested time, and approached the umpire calmly and informed him that on page 53 of the Fed rulebook, the runner is only entitled to 2 bases from time of pitch. He conferred with BU and agreed with me.

OC goes nuts and proclaims that he has coached "100,000 games on this field, and the runner on first has always been awarded home. He was on second at the time of the throw."

Let's assume he has coached 5 games a day on that field. That is 20,000 days of perfect weather. Remember, we are in Minnesota. 20,000 days equates to nearly 55 years. That's a long time to be coaching 5 games a day, every day, and never have a road game. F-in' rat.