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Originally Posted by Julio Caliente
I don't have a manual for 1 umpire mechanics. I have the CD that has two man and three man on there. In this situation though, I chose to actually head up the third base line/into the infield so I could get an angle. Another umpire saw me do this and questioned it. My answer was so that I could see for a pulled foot, and he told me I was wrong that I need to go up the first base line.
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You don't have the umpire edition of the ASA Official Rules of Softball book? How can you check a ruling you may have missed, then?? You really should get a hold of one of these (you can purchase them through the ASA website if your association doesn't supply you with them.) I think that you will really be surprised at how much different the mechanics are for the 1 man umpire system in nearly every situation you can imagine, than, say, the two man system.
1 man mechanics will really tire you out if you use the correctly and are having to work five games, as you stated you did. There is a lot, and I mean a lot, of hustle involved in applying them correctly.