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Originally Posted by Forest Ump
Coach,
The HBP you described is a judgment call by the umpire. I seriously doubt that you could protest a judgment call. I would hope the umpire would instruct you that you can not.
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I believe that the coach in his original post stated that the umpire told him that the batter did not have to make an attempt to avoid the pitch. At this point, this call ceased to be a judgement call and became a rule issue. This umpire was showing that he did not know a rule and subsequently hiding behind his assigner.
I called a game with a guy the other night who not only didn't award first base on a hit by pitch, he called the batter out on strike three. Not only did he not get any grief from following the rules, the offensive coach actually told him that he made the correct call and explained to his player why he was called out.