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NICE
I loved reading this, especially when the coach realized that she was wrong...and couldn't do anything but look stupid.
As for throwing the girl out at second, depending on the situation, I'm all for it. Here's my logic: many girls (and coaches) don't think you will do it with less than two outs, so why not get the out if you know you can get the runner? Besides, most girls aren't going to run full-out...many coaches here are teaching girls to get in the rundown to ge that run home. I'll take my chances getting the out.
If I have two outs, you better know that I am throwing through, except on a 3-2 count...no sense in it. Ball four is a base for the runner, and strike three is good for me.
Reading this also reminded me of a situation I had like this once. As usual, I was doing a high school game and working the plate. I had a lefty batter, and a partner who, let's say, likes to play nicey-nice with coaches. So, no runners on, lefty batter, checks her swing (I thought). Catcher asks me to ask for help. I always ask, especially if it was close (like this one). So I point down and say, "JOhn, Swing?". He gives me a hammer signal. Offensive coach comes unglued (it was only strike two). He calls time, my partner grants it, and coach runs across the diamond to talk to him. IN the matter of a few seconds, my partner calls me to him. He explains that the coach is right in this logic: I can't appeal to the umpire standing on first base with a lefty batter, I need to go to the umpire on third. I told him he was right, IF we would have had a third umpire, but we don't, so he's my only help. Well, John decides he wants to change his call. I tell him that he's not going to change his call, we're going with what he said the first time, we don't get redo's.
Coach ends up winning the game by 5 or 6 runs, but still, insisted that I can't ask for an appeal on a lefty batter without a third base umpire. HE started the name dropping game. "So and so said this, so and so said that..." all that crap. I told him, "I'll be back next week for a game, show me in ANY rule book where that is stated." I NEVER DID SEE ANYTHING FROM HIM THAT SAID I COULDN'T APPEAL IN THIS SITUATION.
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