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Originally Posted by DonP
Greetings Umpires,
Discussion concerning the safety base insued this past weekend. I throw it out for discussion...
B1 hits a routine ground ball to the shortstop who fields clean and makes the throw slightly high to F3 who A: is standing with part of her foot on the white and part on the orange or B: has to hop up to grab the ball and comes down half on white half on orange. In both scenerios, B1 is thrown out by the throw contacting only the orange part of the base.
My question is Does contact with any part of the orange part of the base violate the rule regarding "must use the white part" by the defense
Your thoughts please!!
Thanks
Don
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The fact that F3 has any part of her foot "on" any part of either base demonstrates that she doesn't know how to play the position and, obviously the coach isn't any help. That'll teach you to ask for my thoughts
Now that I got that off my chest, the answer to your question is "no" and it works both ways. You will see many, if not most, of the adult SP BRs hit both bases simultaneously. I believe the real reason is that they are either color-blind, or not smart enough to remember which one they are supposed to hit
