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Originally Posted by Dutch Alex
The following happened to me last Saturday and I'm more than angry!
Bases ampty, outs of none importance. A long, hard hit into right field. Got stuck at the fence. Got it stock? I don't know! F9 stands with the arms in the air, as a signal that the ball got stuck. Just before I, as BU, can kill the play and go over there to look at the ball an optic-yellow ball is thrown into the diamond.
I look again, it was really F9 throwing the ball!  B-R was on her way to 3th base as F9 was standing with the arms up.
My instant thought was and is, let the runner stay on 3th; not sending her back to 2nd. We have an agreement: "Pick it up, then you play on. Let it lay on the ground, BU will come over to have a look!"
How ever, as I gave the signal that the runner will stay on base 3 our National IUC stepped in. He spoke to my PU. As I noticed it and I wasn't invited; I rushed over. At that point their conversation was over. The PU ordered the runner back to 2nd base.
As I asked what the F... was going on, PU informed me that UIC instructed him that way. He, the PU, killed the play by signal -not verbal-. I didn't see (nor hear) that! So runner has to go back to 2nd...
Did anyone had this unappropriated / unexpected / unwanted kind of misbehavior happened to him before? How did you handle this? What could I do [then and now]? -note: we work this union, or we work not / The Neth.'s have only one union- |
To start, YOU as the BU do NOT kill the play. That is the PU's job. Second, you always let the play finish, whether the defense has their arms in the air or not, they do not determine when play is stopped or over.
If the PU did kill the ball, shame on him, but this is the PU's call, not yours.
The UIC shouldn't have even been there unless needed to rule on a protest. I can tell you from experience, the LAST place a UIC should want to be is placing themselves in the middle of a call that isn't theirs. If a problem develops, a UIC should move away from the field until called.