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Consider:
Same play, BR "safe" on the close tag @ 2nd. Runner misses HP and continues to the dugout say, 1/2 way. ODB say's "you missed it", runner attempts to return as F2 signals for ball from F6, F6 starts his wind up to nail the runner at HP, realizes he won't get him, good pump fake, drawing BR off the bag, SS whirls and tags BR for the 3rd as the returning runner is airborne over, but not yet touching HP plate.. You scoring this?
I believe Garth mentioned it's in a "90's version of JR". Same in my 05 and 06 versions.
It seems, from what I've seen, the only interp, opinion, offered guidance, or whatever you wanna consider it,,offered in publication, say's "wave it off"..
Why not conisder it as another opportunity for an out..remember, we, ah, er, I mean, "they" only get so many.
I'm in the same boat as many here, feel I'm "interjecting" on a missed base appeal by calling the runner out, if feels like it.., but, the above example sways me back to, ha, your out..
If I get back to coaching here in a couple years (fingers crossed, the twin grand studs are now 5).
This play happens; I'm on offense, I'll turn rat and demand the run is scored and protest if I don't get my way..professionally of course, and yeah, I'd do it right. Have em log it, shut my screaming parents and Ac's up, and move on.
Hoping that the protest review board could find nothing in writing other than a rule book, with no other published records to assist in rendering an educated decision. Nah, I wouldn't, but it be tempting...
I'm on defense and they allow the run I'd protest even louder (only in confiction, not audibly).
And, quote my widely accepted, umpire training manual, to the "protest committee", not pull it out of my "gear bag right there", nor "look blue, I've been an umpire for years....
Great topic. So ask your trainers, bring this one up at your next meeting.
We gotta hurry it's almost spring, a consenous would be nice. So what references are being used out there for training at your respective associations?
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