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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
Dave that's what the manual says but in all my years of watching PRO ball I have yet to see a BU ON HIS OWN make a call of strike on the play presented.
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Unless you are very different than most people (even umpires) you wouldn't be looking at BU on a checked swing uncaught third strike. That's not where the action or the ball is. And if you are dependent on TV to show you a volunteer call by BU, you'll never see it.
Eddings? You mean with A. J. Piersynski getting to first? Eddings called a strike immediately, behind the plate. That's more than a little different. Why do you think the BU should have piped up?
I don't know how long this ruling has been in the book, but it's not very many years. I expect recent rulings to be more strictly followed than old ones, so I expect that BU usually does, in practice, make the call.