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Originally Posted by teebob21
Working from the outside is an approved mechanic in Arizona HS play. I may be wrong, but I think this was written by Emily Alexander. It is a good basic summary of the concepts of staying out on a ball hit to the outfield.
http://www.ahssug.org/documents/rule...he-diamond.pdf |
Yes...this document was written by Emily when our HS association decided to allow working outside the diamond as a base umpire about 5 years ago.
We don't teach this to new umpires, we continue to teach ASA mechanics of button hooking to start. We do cover working outside the diamond with our more experienced umpires. I will say that I was at the ASA UIC Clinic a few years ago and there was a presentation on why ASA mechanics are what they are. There was a comparison of button hooking to working outside. The only disadvantage to working outside that I agreed with was that it can lead to lazy umpiring.