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Visit To Mound And Other things
1. Before the inning the coach goes out to the field and positions his players and gives his pitcher a quick talk.
Would this be considered a visit? 2. Also does the pitcher have to wear two color of the same socks? Thanks, Ted |
Ted,
1. No, this would not be considered a visit unless the umpire judged that he unduly delayed the start of the half-inning. 2. Technically, the pitcher may wear a different color sock on each foot/leg as long as all of his teammates do the same. As to whether you require they all wear the (let's say) green sock on the left leg & the yellow on the right, or whether it is more properly dictated by the "handedness" of the player, I can't find an authoritative ruling, so I don't know. JM |
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After the game, I discovered that I was parked next to that coach, and I asked him how come he appealed first base, when I was watching the catch, the tag at 3rd, and quickly checking the tag at 2nd, and that working solo I would have no clue as to when the runner at 1st left. He said, "yeah, I know, I was just hoping maybe you saw him out of your peripheral vision." Oooooooooooooookay.:) |
It amazes me that anyone really cares about color of socks. If a coach even mentioned something like that to me, I would tell him to be careful what he asks for.
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Had a rat try this one a few weeks ago:
R1 and R2, fly to right, I'm PU. BU goes out to get the catch, I'm watching runners. None of them even remotely come close to leaving early, I hear the rat in the dugout quickly start talking about appealing to 1B, which they do and I call safe. They look out at PU confused as to why HE didn't call it. Apparently, they were only doing it to cause trouble since they saw his back was to the play and figured it was his call. Can't wait to have him again this weekend...I doubt he'll see the end of the game this time around. |
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so, under this logic, you would allow the coach to go to the mound at the start of each inning and let him chat with his pitcher during warmups, provided he's out of there before delaying the start of the inning? if you can find me an OBR passage that supoports that then i'll buy it. until then, whenever he goes to the mound, provided they haven't invited me along for an injury session, i'm charging them with a trip. |
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SDSteve had it right, you, as the PU, should have been up the 3B line for the tag and advance of R2 into 3B. everything else belongs to BU. |
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I have read no language that considers a pre-inning conference to be a trip to the mound, so I allow it. If the coach delays the pitcher from completing his warm ups, I go by the one-minute rule and tell the catcher to send it down. Then if the coach squawks, I hit him with a trip and then he can have a real conference. |
i think there's no language because a trip is a trip is a trip. no matter what the circumstances are of when he goes, by going out there he has met the requirements of what defines a trip.
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The only thing I have been able to find is the BRD #144 CONFERENCES: CHARGED TO DEFENSE: BETWEEN HALF INNINGS. Carl C. references a communication with the late Barney Deary from 12/85: Quote:
On the "different colored socks" question, Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger seem to offer conflicting opinions, so I don't know what to think. ;) JM |
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