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Opening statement: "Batter makes the slightest of movement toward ball but I'm 100% sure she didn't offer."
You're the PU. You are calling balls and strikes. Doesn't matter what anyone else in the ballpark thinks, only your call counts.
If the pitch is off the plate and the batter starts a swing and I am not positive of my call, I will immediately point to my partner and go with his call. If I am positive she committed, I'll call a strike and that's the end of it. But if I am sure she did not committ I will call (empahtically) BALL. Then catcher says "did she go, Blue?" I respond negative. Then she or coach asked me to appeal to partner. When I do he raises his fist!
Then I am standing there with my jaw dropped, feeling both foolish and angry. What makes his call anymore right or wrong than mine!
Question to anyone: Would you discuss with your partner a pre-game agreement that if PU makes the call, then is asked to appeal - that BU will not over-rule partner regardless of what he sees?
WMB
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