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Old Sun Jun 18, 2017, 09:35pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by teebob21 View Post
Out is the correct call.

14U Class C tournament this weekend: Strike 3 is uncaught, and bounces off of F2 and rolls in fair ground to F1. F1 throws poorly to 1B, where F3 catches the ball on the safety base well before the BR arrives. BU called the BR safe. I think that's an out, too. Errant throw exception, 8.2.N(5).
One of the dumbest rule exceptions in the book

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At this same tournament, several umpires had a WAY TOO LONG discussion on the topic of "hands are part of the bat".
Any, ANY discussion on this is too long. Apparently, the Class C tournament had some umpires who still need a lot of training, or at least some remedial reading comprehension
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