Babe Ruth Follies

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by SAump

If they do ask, then I would probably signal safe. Now if the first words I hear are "He missed the bag." That would lead me to another entirely different CALL.

Well, it should lead to a different call. If the fielder has posession of the ball and is touching the bag and announces "he missed the bag" before the runner has corrected his error, he has just made an unmistakeable appeal.

Originally Posted by SAump

Now if the runner indicated that he missed the bag by quickly returning to the bag, I don't need to wait for an appeal. It's like self-incriminating evidence. The defense is holding the ball and touching the bag. VERDICT for the DEFENSE.

I think you should consider changing your moinker from SAump to MakeItump. You tend to make it up as you go along. Even when told what the exact professional interpretation is you still have to try to defend the indefensible.


Tim.