[nickrego]

Thanks guys, but I do know that the uniform is part of the batter, otherwise I would not have indicated an HBP.

And I have been doing this long enough, and dealt with teenagers enough to know that this kid thought he was doing the right thing. He was also visibly shaken by his coach yelling at him for doing what he thought to be the right, ‘honest’ thing.

This game did not mean a thing as far as the league standings go because his team is at the bottom of the standings. They were behind 18 - 4, and there was no way ‘this’ player was going to hit the big hit.

What it did mean was that maybe a teenager got a little positive reinforcement for making the good choice and for trying to do the right thing. Something we don’t see very often these days. I deal with a lot of players who try to lie and cheat their way to an advantage, this was not one of those kids.

If this is what you call getting over on the umpire, then yep, he got over on me. And it was the highlight of my day.