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Old Wed Oct 03, 2012, 08:32am
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn View Post
That's not normal... but in any case, it's the PLATE umpire's responsibility to watch BU at the beginning of a fly ball to the outfield to see if he's going out. Many partners will say something if they go out, but that's often not heard anyway. YOU have to watch. If he goes out, he's got the fly ball and you've got, well, what you didn't get.
And this is even easier if you come from behind home plate. Unfortunately that is what I do not see enough of from the PU in these cases.

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