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Tim - What happened on the lifted foot was that he was in C and had to look all the way across the diamond and simply could not see that the foot had come off the bag. As to the tag, he was on the 2B side of the runner and the "tag" was made on the 1B side so he could not see that the fielder did not have the ball in his glove when he tagged the runner with the glove.
I don't by any stretch mean to criticize. Let me say again that this guy is an excellent umpire. Superman could not have made those calls correctly from where he was standing because he did not have the angle. It also was not a bad mechanics situation, there were just too many base runners for him to be able to cover. I on the other hand was at home and had a perfect angle to see both plays, not because I did anything right, just because I happened to be standing in a better spot for that specific situation.
I just hate to see the kids get punished when there are two of us out there and we cannot necessarily make use of all of the information available to both parties.
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David A. Brand
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