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Originally Posted by tankmjg24
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Now my question is, what does one due in the above situation when it comes to a play being made on the BR. In most situations if the front run scores the game is over so no call would be made. However if an appeal is made on the missing of home by R1 and no call is made on the BR then to me you are in for a world of arguing where no call was made. However by making a call on the BR you are saying that something out of the ordinary is going on.....
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An argument may ensue but you simply tell the coach that it is
his teams responsibility to make an appeal on a missed base, and not yours to call the missed base. In your situation, it seems that there was no play on the runner that missed touching the plate so as I teach in my clinics, "no play, no call".
One of the problems with LL and youth leagues is that every time a runner touches a base, everyone expects the umpire to make a call of some kind. So if a runner misses a base, everyone expects you to call something when in fact you are
not supposed to make a call. This is so you do not tip off either side that an infraction has occurred (as you stated).
I haven't done LL in over 25 years but I have not forgotten how many "rules experts" are managing and in the stands and all of them know more than you in a game.
I get ex-LL umpires in my HS clinics and believe me, there is a lot of re-training that has to be done.