No Brainer?

[BigUmp56]

I watched one of our more experienced umpires not react to a situation today and was kind of shocked. Bottom of the 7th inning home team down 6 runs. 2 outs. Batter strikes out swinging. He slings his bat all the way to the backstop in disgust and flings his helmet from the batters box all the way back to the dugout steps. I was in A position and was just waiting to see the big finger come out. He didn't say a word to this player.


After the game I asked him why he didn't run the player and he said it was too damn hot and he didn't have the energy to do it. The he said that since the team probably wouldn't advance out of pool play in the seniors tournament, this was more than likely their last game of the season anyway. In my mind it was a complete no brainer ejection. I would have ejected him just on principle even if I was sure it was his last game ever!


Tim.