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Old Wed Jul 06, 2011, 03:15pm
SanDiegoSteve SanDiegoSteve is offline
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Here is the bottom line for me: I see all kinds of home plates on the crappy high school fields on which I umpire adult ball. If the runner touches any portion of what is passing as home plate in a particular game, that runner has touched the plate, and you can stick your appeal directly. If he misses touching a part of the facsimile of home plate, he may be subject to an appeal.

I would think any umpire would have a difficult time explaining to a manager that the runner did not touch the plate because he only touched a black edge. Talk about OOO.
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