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Old Wed Mar 01, 2006, 04:06pm
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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You really need to be more specific with your terms on a question like this...

An appeal is a very specific thing, and is not allowed after certain fielders leave the field (which fielders varies by ruleset).

A manager asking us to get help on a call is NOT an appeal. If this is what you meant by the question, players leaving the field is immaterial. Obviously, if another pitch is thrown, it's too late to fix anything. But even if everyone had left the field and the other team was warming up in the field, if it was determined (via whatever vehicle) that something was misadministered, we have the obligation to fix it, even if we look awful doing it.

Worst one I have seen was a game where I was evaluating a pair of umpires. After a lot of runs and crazy plays, defense finally records it's 2nd out. They leave the field. Offense leaves the field. Umpires do their mid-inning thing (which ... for this team was to go gab with the fans/hot-moms on the 1B side... but that's another story!). Pitcher warms up. There is some sort of hubbub in the ex-offense's dugout, but I'm not close enough to hear it. Batter settles in, and just before pitcher gets ready to go her coach tells her to wait and he starts yelling time over and over.

After the umpires discussed with each other and the scorekeeper (a neutral person in our area), they determined they'd made a mistake, and reset it all back up with 2 outs.

Next batter dribbled to the pitcher. VERY anti-climactic.
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