Make the call

[jkumpire]

This is a true story from about a month ago.

HS Varsity game, R2 is trying to steal 3B. BR takes piche right down the middle, thigh high.

F2 comes up throwing, hits BR in the helmet and then the ball hits the bat and rolls down the line in foul ground. BR is doing nothing but standng there in the batters box.

F2 says, "What's going on, that's a dead ball" as he watches R2 score.

"No it isn't, he didn't interfere with you, you hit him with the throw."

"Yes it's a dead ball, I've had four other umpires call that play the same way Blue."

I then call time after R2 scores, brush off the plate, and look up at F2 and say, "I'm sorry son, what can I tell you? Your umpire friends have been wrong four times, and you got lucky. But that ain't today. Life's tough some days, isn't it?"

[RPatrino]

Sounds like that F2 found some blues that would help him prevent runner's from stealing.

Bob P.

[Thaal]

I think there is one thing that is worth consideration here, that is that the PU saw something, that he saw as interference. It is a judgement call and no one is in a better position to make the call than the umpire.

We have all heard the grand stand umpire’s chorus, and we all know how ill-informed they are and how poor there judgement is, back your fellow blues.