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First off I would like to compliment whoever hands out those umpire uniforms. Those ajustable hats with the velcro in the back look awesome. All the umpires are wearing them, and they have some sort of logo on the front.
2 things: 1. The PU's get it right mentality is over the top. He went to get help because the defensive coach was begging for some reason to call R3 out as he scored. It was a bad throw up the line, and their may have been contact between F2 and R3, but it was not intentional by either player, and the contact was barely anything if any. 2. Next batter, fly ball. R3 tries to advance after the catch. R3 comes down and makes contact with F2 with his shoulder first, after the throw went past F2. R3 falls over catcher, and has to take another step to get to the plate. PU starts pointing at either the plate or R3. I don't know if he is calling obstruction, or interference, or what. Turns out, he is signaling to count the run. I don't know why he didn't just signal "safe". It didn't look like R3 was trying to hurt F2, but he didn't appear to slip or anything. To me it looked like he lowered his shoulder to get through the catcher. Offensive manager talked to PU (he is wearing a microphone). Manager is saying that F2 is blocking R3's path. PU says that there was obstruction, but he didn't call it because R3 scored. If this was NCAA/NF play, would you have called a malicious crash, obstruction, interference, or a combo of those? |
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