You make the call

Carbide Keyman · #1 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 15, 2005, 08:54pm

After reading Papa C's article, I have a question I would like to put to my fellow umpires in this forum.

If BR hits a home run to win ballgame and misses any base, you see the miss, play is appealed, do you call the BR out.

Papa C intimated that there is no way he's calling it.

What would you do, WHAT WOULD YOU DO ?!?

Thanks,

Doug

Dave Hensley · #2 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 15, 2005, 08:59pm

If there's no doubt about the miss, then I uphold the appeal. If he was close enough to the base that his shoelace might have flopped over and touched the base, then he touched.

DG · #3 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 15, 2005, 10:25pm

If it's a D-1 Super Regional with television broadcast and there is a memo from Yeast saying call it, AND, it's an obvious miss, I uphold the appeal. Otherwise...he touched 'em all coach.