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Originally posted by w_sohl
I have yet to have a game where I worked the plate where I had to count or disallow a run with regards to timing of the final out. As a plate umpire in a two man HS game, how would your mechanics allow you to best rule on this play? Are you looking at the plate and listening for your partner to make the call? Are you watching the runner score then immediately looking for the play on the infield? Are you watching the play on the infield and after the out is recorded checking to see where the runner is? I know that I have now asked this it will happen to me for sure this week as I have five games over four days and I want to be fully prepared to make the correct call.
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You have to position yourself so that you can see the possible out on the bases and the runner tagging home. Last time this happened to me there was a runner on second with a hit in the gap. The runner on second should have scored easily, however he walked in from third and sure enough BR tried to stretch the single into a double I saw this might happen and positioned myself so that I could see each play. Sure enough the third out was made at second just before the run scored. Probably the most common way that this occurs is with runners on first and third and the runner on first walks off the base to get in a rundown long enough for the runner on third to score. With two umpires this is a pretty easy play to get right. At least it should be.