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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
People complaining about umpires, someone better check that bottle on the scorekeeper's desk.
Batter swings at a pitch in the dirt long before the catcher has an opportunity and they ruled it a passed ball.
I have no idea how anyone would expect the catcher to cleanly field a ball in the dirt with a bat in your line of vision.
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Was that the actual scorer's ruling or the TV announcer's?
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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
That's why they get the big bucks. Any coach at that level would expect it.
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NCAA 14.27 Wild Pitch
A wild pitch is charged to a pitcher when the pitch is so high, wide or low that the catcher cannot handle the ball with ordinary effort and at least one runner advances. Any pitch in the dirt is wild. Only one wild pitch is recorded regardless of the number of runners who advance or the number of bases advanced. A third strike not handled by the catcher because it was wild, when the batter reaches first base safely, is scored as both a wild pitch and a strikeout. No wild pitch is charged if a runner stealing on the pitch advances only one base. A wild pitch is not an error.
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What the coach expects doesn't matter to the official scorer, the scoring rule does.
If they had four umps there why didn't they just work a four-person crew? Obviously if any of the umps were hurt or injured they could then go to a three-person crew.
Is this solely for the sake of consistency with the regular season?