Coach's Visit

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by RPatrino

PWL, if the catcher THEN talks with the pitcher I have a visit. Absent that, I don't have a chargable conference.

FED Rule 3-4-3: ...If the conference was in foul territory, the conference concludes when the coach or non-playing representative initially starts to return to the dugout/bench area.

[RPatrino]

True, in FED play, that is a conference. I must have missed the FED part of the discussion, I guess it was further up in the thread.

[Fritz]

Interesting takes on the pitcher/coach conference between innings. I discussed this with an umpire supervisor earlier this season and was advised to warn a coach that he could be charged a conference if he did it again in the future as most would not even consider this a trip.

The basis was that 1) by having the discussion, it took away from the time the pitcher had to throw his 5 or 8 warm-up pitches - thus delaying the start of the inning unless you subsequently reduced the number of warm-up pitches. And 2) it also was to be considered a conference because the next half inning officially starts as soon as the last out is recorded in the previous half inning.

This becomes a real issue if you are playing games under a time limit.

Unless the pitcher was out running the basepaths, the coach could have given his advice in the dugout (I do allow the 3rd base coach to walk across the diamond and give a brief word of encouragement or whatever as he passes the pitcher though).

Sounds like many of you disagree -

[SanDiegoSteve]

I don't think which set of rules was ever specified, but I do know that PWL usually cites FED rules, so I figured it out by that.

[mcrowder]

Dammit ... you guys are making me defend PWL. I hate you.

PWL SPECIFICALLY stated in his very first post here, that the sitch he described was in a FED game.

[LMan]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Dammit ... you guys are making me defend PWL.

Gawd. That's like finding out your Sunday-school teacher is a pimp.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Dammit ... you guys are making me defend PWL. I hate you.

Quick, go read a few pages out of the JEA. It'll help get that taste out of your mouth.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Dammit ... you guys are making me defend PWL. I hate you.

PWL SPECIFICALLY stated in his very first post here, that the sitch he described was in a FED game.

You are right. I was too lazy to go back one page and find his original post.