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Originally Posted by Rich Fronheiser
Why? The BU has all plays on balls that stay in the infield, including a subsequent play at third base.
Wouldn't PBUC recommend the PU trailing up the FIRST base line and look for pulled tags and swipe feet and other such squirrels?
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What I've learned this year from having the priviledge of speaking with four new MiLB umpires and one AA umpire who worked at PBUC is that what PBUC teaches and what PBUC writes are often two different things.
It would be nice if they were consistent, but from what I've seen, that would require annual, and at times, mid-season rewrites of the manual.
Currently, PBUC, on infield batted balls with R1 only, instructs that the PU has any play at third, on that rare occasion that R1 can run 180 feet on an infield batted ball. (He does NOT, however, have that same responsibility with R1/R3 as he would with a ball to the outfield.)
In the play that started this thread I have been told that primary, or first call responsibility belongs to BU but that PU can make a call absent one from BU.