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Re: Re: OK,
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Originally posted by His High Holiness
Situation:
FED district tournament championship. Bottom of 8th, score is tied, R3, R1. Time is out while F3 and F1 confer. F3 ends up with the ball as F1 gets on the mound. The NCAA D1 umpire wannabe behind the plate calls play as R1 steps off of first. F3 puts the tag on him and U1 calls a balk. After a conference, the balk stands, scoring the winning run and the umpires go home amid a s$$$house.
Since there are no protests in VA Fed ball, the play was allowed to stand. The umpires involved have a permanent black mark against their careers and have not advanced one iota since then. I doubt that they ever will.
At our next association meeting, the wannabe D1 ump was forced to get up and explain that the rules forbid the ball to be put in play unless the pitcher is on the mound WITH the ball. Then he had to explain that there can be no balk without a live ball.
Peter [/B]
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I don't have my FED rule book with me, but I believe the HBT is an ejection in FED baseball.
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Alan Roper
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