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Originally Posted by prosec34
Shouldn't the ump have positioned himself more towards the third-base line extended? I don't bother with it at the high school level b/c there's not that many sweep tags, but in MLB that happens a lot.
Personally, I'd have called him out. Unless I'm fairly convinced the tag whiffed the runner, I'll give the fielder the benefit of the doubt. I don't see how this ump could've ruled that there definitely wasn't a tag in real time.
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As it turned out, yes.
Maybe he thought it would be a collision, since the ball was there so far in advance.
In HS, swipe tags are more common, because of the malicious contact rule.