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Originally posted by WestMichiganBlue
F6 is standing near-by with ball in glove.
"If she gets tagged out we'll have a hellava uproar. That's just good preventive umpiring." "Sounds like slow pitch to me" I responded as I headed towards 1B.
What say you?
WMB
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I say your partner might have been right and you were probably right too. There is some middle ground.
It is a common courtesy to give a slider time to brush themselves off. As you well know, TIME should not be granted until the play is finished. It is not often that the shortstop can't throw the ball to the pitcher without hitting the backstop. After a player has slid into a base, I quite often grant time, whether asked for or not, and then kick off the dirt from the top of the base, turn and walk away. It doesn't happen everytime.
If you have turned your back and are now leaving for your next appropriate position... you don't know what is going on behind you. F6 yells, "I tagged her. She was off the base and I tagged her. She's out!" What will you do now?
You turn around; the runner is on the base; F6 is holding his/her glove with the ball on the runner still yelling that she is out. (and perhaps this is why you didn't call TIME???)
If the ball and the runner are in close proximity, the play is not over. You have either got to stand there and watch the play or call time, turn your back, and walk away.
I do a similar thing for overthrows at 1st. Runner turns to the outside and is not making any attempt to advance. I call time and walk away while F3 scrambles for the ball. I remove any opportunity for F3 to try to convince me that the runner's accomplishment of reaching 1st or that F3's fielding error should be overturned now with a tag. The play is done; I'm gone and getting ready for the next pitch.
I doubt the slow pitch comment helped cultivate a stronger relationship with your partner.