LLWS CA vs FL

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How bad was the PU in last night's CA vs FL game? Let me count the ways.

1. Where was this guys strike zone? Did he have a strike zone? I can't believe how much he was squeezing both pitchers. Especially Pimentel of CA.

2. Missed HR call aside. Why was he talking to the BU at 3rd about what he saw and not the FU in left who made the call? Why didn't he gather the entire crew together to find out exactly what each of them saw or didn't see?

3. When the CA coach called time and complained that Dante Bichette Sr. was "taunting" his 1B coach and his batter the PU did nothing. No informing Bichette about the CA complaint. No warning about taunting. Nothing.

4. In the 5th, after a FL batter struck out swinging the 3B coach for FL questioned the PU as to whether the pitch was fouled. The PU said that the pitch went off the C's glove and then off his protector (which was the correct call). But the coach then said something to him along the lines of "how could you be sure you got that one right, you didn't get the HR call right". A coach still complaining about a call that happened two innings earlier? The PU should have either run him right there or at least told him that if he said one more word about the HR call that his day would be over.

This PU took charge of nothing and let the FL coaches run all over him. Not a very good example of umpiring at this level. It gives all of us a bad name.