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Originally Posted by umpjim
Top 7 WS, ball down the line, Moyers does a great shovel from the glove to 1B who barehands it. Baserunner is too quick and is called safe on the play. Replay to me shows runner was out and ump was moving when he called it. I don't know what angle would have helped but I would have been busting to 90 to the throw and I would try to be stopped on the call. I suspect even with me busting (not that fast) I would still not have the angle and the throw going to the hand instead of the glove would have made it a guess.
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Football guy here but I umpired softball while in college. One thing I recall was a lot of this kind of play relies on sound (glove-bag or bag-glove). Is that an actual mechanic you baseball guys use or was that a lazy mechanic taught to a rec-league softball guy? If that is the right mechanic, did this because a harder call because the "throw" was so short and barehanded by the 1st baseman? There was likely no sound of the catch.