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Originally Posted by LMan
How often do you:
1) get asked for a checkswing appeal while in C, and;
2) how often do you call a 'strike?'
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1. Whenever the defense asks the plate man to get help.
2. Whenever I judge the batter offered at the pitch.
Why should the position of the BU have any bearing on his fulfilling his responsibilities? What happened, did you work with a Smitty who said, "I won't come to you if you're on the grass, and if I have to, give me what I got"?
Call what you have. That's your job. No set of mechanics that I'm familiar with, Pro, FED, CCA, offer a loophole for BU's on the grass. No upper level umpire I've worked with expected any different.