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Originally Posted by RKBUmp
Tonight, runner on 1st stealing on pitch. Batter foul tips it straight back, runner easy stand up into 2nd with no throwdown. I move on around 2nd behind SS, ball is thrown back to pitcher in circle and she is fooling around smoothing out the dirt. All of a sudden runner walks off bag back toward 1st and I call her out for a lookback violation. Here comes coach, that was foul ball. No coach it was a foul tip. But the plate umpire didnt call anything. The plate umpire gave the foul tip signal and the hammer. But he didnt call it foul. Thats because it wasnt foul, it was a live ball. But I told the runner to go back. Gee, Im sorry coach, I guess we should give a mulligan because you told the runner to step off the base?
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I'm not as sure as the others reading this. The catcher did catch the ball, didn't she? It didn't go to the backstop?
I ask because a week ago I worked with an umpire who has been umpiring for a very long time who did not know the ball had to be caught to be a foul tip. I asked him after the game why he signaled foul tip when the ball went to the backstop. He said, "Because it was tipped." I said it had to be caught by the catcher. He frowned and said he would look it up.
Rita