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Originally Posted by LMan
I continue to see some MLB umpires give the 'horizontal fist' (a la Eddings) but I don't know the rationale behind that - I think the safe sign is better, because that makes it crystal that the BR is NOT out.
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Regarding the notorious Eddings and his fiasco, I seem to recall someone explaining that the hand straight out signaled the swinging strike, and the fist pump signaled the catch (and hence, the out). Things got, uh, messed up thereafter.
One might still use the hand straight out to signal a swinging strike 3, and add a safe sign while verbalizing "no catch" for the case at hand.