Thread: Fed. HBP
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Old Mon Mar 10, 2008, 11:18am
mbyron mbyron is offline
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I will add this for newer umpires: if you have ANY doubt whatever about whether to award 1B, you should award the base. Everyone expects HBP to go to 1B, and you've to to sell the call to make him stay. The expected call is not always the right one, but you'd better be sure you're right.
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