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Originally Posted by CecilOne
Unfortunately.  And blatant to the PU's thinking.
And given that an umpires job is to enforce the rules of the game and a prior topic discussed that a BU should call "hands violations" even if he/she only has a clear view from B or C. |
But the earlier context was the assumption that the PU was not paying attention to the hands violation (or didn't know the rule, perhaps), not that he knew the rule, was watching, and believed the pitcher was legal under the rules.
In both cases, if the partners get together and discuss the actions by the pitcher, and the umpire whose responsibility is primary on the call (hands for PU, crow hop for BU) states that he has seen the action and judges it to be legal, then that changes things, doesn't it? If the "secondary" partner makes the call anyway after the discussion, that just seems wrong to me.