Wed May 13, 2015, 10:32am
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Originally Posted by Dakota
I'm having a hard time with what the umpires did or did not do that caused anyone jeopardy.
If the pitch was caught, the batter is out.
If the pitch was not caught, the PU calls (or more likely, signals, since it was a swing and miss) strike 3 and nothing more. The BU makes no call at all since there was no play.
What did the umpires do or not do that put anyone in jeopardy? Yes, they made themselves look bad by not knowing whether it was a D3K, but whether they knew it or not had no impact (that I can see) on the actions of either team.
Now, if the PU did the infamous strike 3 call "Steeeerike treee... yuuuur out!", well, now we have jeopardy if they change it later to a D3K.  |
But it took a conference to decide on going with U3K, so the BR was jeopardized by the lack of decision and saying she had the right to 1st after the fact. Sketchy, I know, and there is the "play should know" aspect.
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