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Originally Posted by Dukat
It is funny because I had this happen to me this weekend as a coach. I umpire Fed and ASA and I was coaching my daughter in a USSSA tournament. I went up to the umpire in a dead ball situation and said "I want to appeal, The runner missed third" He stated "You can if you want to" and then turned around to go back to the plate. He said play ball and I said "I really want to appeal the runner missing third" then he gave the signal. Afterwards, in the inning swap, he stated it had to be a live ball appeal but he did allow me to make it and it was a simple verbal appeal. The next game I had my pitcher wait for the call to play ball then step off and make a verbal appeal which was granted.
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Fed allows the coach to make a dead ball appeal. They are the only ones I know of that do. ASA does not. I don't know u-trip rules, but apparently they do not, either.