Originally posted by mary4
We had a situation at my son's all star game where the baserunner was clearly out at first for the 3rd out and the ump went to call him out but suddenly called him safe. Should we have appealed to the home plate umpire and if so what do you think the odds would have been for the ump to change his call? The call cost us the game, it was a tie score bottom of the 6th and while we thought the runner was out which would have been the 3rd out after the ump called him safe the runner on third scored and game was over. What a way to lose a game!!!
For any of us who have umpired "over the years" received a dime for every time we heard "hey Blue that one cost us the game" we could all retire.
As Windy said we do our best to get the calls right, but here is a FACT of LIFE WE WILL NOT The best of the best make mistakes and so will we. However, if one analyses the entire game, there are many factors that contribute to a loss.
How many men / women were left on base? Did your outfielders ALWAYS hit the cut-off person preventing a runner from taking the extra base? How many errors were committed? These are just a few of the factors.
If you want to blame blue for your loss, then go ahead, but if one does not CORRECT the real problem, it's a good bet that the losses will keep piling up.
Pete Booth
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