2 calls

[ozzy6900]

Originally posted by bossman72
My partner made these calls in the game we did the other day. I am inexperienced, so i'm not totally sure if he was right or not, so i agreed with him.


1) Batter hits a ball that bounces high right in the vacinity of home plate. Batter drops his bat like normal and runs to first base. The bat is rolling towards the pitcher's mound and contacts the bat in fair territory. The umpire called the BR out. When questioned by the coach, the umpire said "since the ball contacted a MOVING bat in fair territory, it's considered hitting the ball twice, thus called an out. had the bat been still and the ball contacted it, it would have been nothing, live ball."

No, even though the bat was moving when it made contact with the ball, the ball still hit the bat. Your partner's call is when the batter is still holding the bat and makes contact a second time.

2) New pitcher comes in to pitch the 4th and starts throwing warm ups. Defensive coach isn't sure if he is going to go over his innings limit, so he tells the pitcher and F5 to switch. My partner disallows this. He said that since the pitcher toed the rubber and threw warm up pitches that he is now required to pitch to at least one batter since he is now considered an unannounced substitute.

Well, if you are dealing with FED or big boy ball, if the pitcher is in danger of violating any pitching restriction, then he can be removed. This must have been a LL game. They have some stupid rule that if a kid throws a pitch, he has to pitch. Then if he goes over his limit, the opposition protests and the kid has to ice his arm or something like that.