NFHS "Charge an umpire"

[umpjim]

I haven’t seen a full charge in my neck of the woods but when a coach approaches me I like to decrease the distance he has to travel and I approach him to expedite the start of the conversation. There is another school of thought that would have you be unaware of the coaches desire to engage you and thus he would have to travel further to engage you as you were repositioning with your back turned to him. I think the back turned or jog back to position to the charging coach might be an effective tool if done with appropriate innocence.

[john5396]

The restriction on charging an ump was added about 15-20 years ago. Before that was added, it was normal for a coach to run at us like Billy Martin.

Guidance then was to give a stop, verbal or stop sign when they started running. If they showed and approached respectfully, then ignore. Of he is still running when he gets to the plate, he was gone.