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Originally posted by IRISHMAFIA
That aside, dealing with them is not as difficult as many umpires {or teams} make it out to be.
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I agree. Which is what I was getting at.
That is to say, teams don't seem to want to think about it wrt plays coming from foul territory; too many umpires treat it like an extended base, and even "recognize" it after the BR has acheived 1st, etc.
One thing that would help would be an official case play or two regarding this "errant throw" exception.
Whenever I have made a call based on the "missed catch" interpretation of what that means (I've done that 2 or 3 times this year - disallowing the use of the orange base for extra stretch, basically), I get this look from the coach like I am making up my own rule. Nothing terribly unusual about that
, but it would be nice to have something other than web discussion board renditions of conversations with national staff to fall back on!