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Originally Posted by ozzy6900
This is getting ridiculous. Now we are making up rules and using the moronic rule 9.01(c) to make it all right!
Why are you all trying to eject, or call obstruction? Just call the runner safe no matter what! When the DC comes out, you can quietly discuss what his players are doing and that if you cannot see the base, you cannot render anything but a safe call.
Better yet, stop officiating on the kiddie fields!
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Which is probably being taught to the kids BY the coach. Just as a good pitching coach will teach his pitcher's, especially lefty's how to balk in hopes you as an umpire don't know or recognize the move as a balk. Treat it as a vicinity play just as the rule book says for a dislodged base.