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Whoa, horsey!!
ozzy's right: 3-man IS NOT easier than 2.
When one guy screws up in 3-man, VERY bad things happen; and 3-man seldom gets used in no-count games. Doing your first 3-man w/o a clinic or scrimage to practice is a recipe for embarassment.
If you are comitted/ determined to do the game: Find out what system your crew is planning to use ["we'll go over it in the pre-game" is a BAD sign in response to you question]; buy, borrow, beg or steal the book to read; do whatever you have to do to get the plate [fewer ways to blow a coverage]; and remember to Pause, Read, React to the base umps as well as the play.
EDTI>>>>>>>
The above written before reading scyguy's latest.
scy: not sure of your background; your post to start this sounded like you were about to take your very first 3-man w/o, as I said a clinic or scrimage.
If that presumption is wrong, apologies: but here's why 3 of us had the same impression [and it's mostly NOT your other posts on this Forum]-
3-man is more dependent than any other system for all the umpires being on the same page in order that it to work correctly. Asking questions about mechanics HERE is probably the LEAST useful place to get info. for your game. What you need [to get prepared for a game] to know is not what WE think the correct 3-man coverages and rotations are, but what YOUR PARTNERS think is correct.
What is nice about more than 2 umpires, is minor deviations from "best practices" are not a serious problem, as long as all 3 guys are working the same "deviation". But the first time BOTH BU's go out on a deep fly ball, or end up inside with a trouble catch in the outfield, or converge, not knowing who's got 2d, somebody's gonna get hurt.
[Edited by cbfoulds on Apr 13th, 2005 at 11:23 AM]
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