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Pete,
There are people here (Jackie W) that contend that I post "just to argue" . . . while that is not true it seems at times I do take positions that don't seem to follow the "style" of this board.
I have worked a lot of baseball in my life. I do not react to "small diamond" questions nor would I answer a question based around a game played by the distaff groupings of players. I am not qualified to talk of little league or girls baseball/softball since I have never worked one of those level of games. Because of this I keep my comments to BASEBALL games played by players of "shaving age".
At the NCAA level and (semi)professional level the mechanic used to is to make the award EXACTLY as you would on ANY ball passing into DBT. We know that at school the award is immediate as the ball crosses the DBT line . . . the call is "TIME" . . . then the awards are made after about a 1/2 count.
This is the way it is taught and this is the way "many" upper level umpire clinics teach it.
Your advice to "delay" the call would be good for "many" levels of ball but NOT for all. It is the responsibility of players and coaches to understand rules . . . the direction "You, third base!" in no way can be construed as a "direction to violate the rules."
At the level I work the award is immediate and direct.
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