Throw pulls 1st baseman off bag

Originally Posted by ctblu40

This is the baseball board... Is it possible that the two games that are played under different rules are also officiated with different guidlines? I posted the CCA manual notes in a preceding post.

His post is verbatim of what is in the 2007 NCAA Baseball Umpires Manual.

My bad for suggesting that you might step in and offer unsolicited information on a pulled foot.

But again, if the game is on the line over that call, personally, I will probably go out on a limb and still go unsolicited to the decided umpire and tell him what I saw.

In any case, that is a situation where the deciding umpire should be telling the coach "Hey Skip, I am going to talk with my partner about this call ok? I am going to check to see if he seen what I seen." No harm in that at all.

But indeed, at the NCAA level, and you WILL see this at the NFHS level in their manuals (I am in Oregon, thus, we use CCA mechanics, thus, I am going with the NCAA way of seek help...).

I think it is natural for us umpires to be suspicious of any procedure where we might have to admit we are wrong to a coach! But, in the last couple of years in NCAA ball, I have personally never seen this concept abused by a coach, and opposing coaches have accepted this procedure gracefully, even when the call as been reversed. Yes, they have their "turn" at questioning you, but at the end of the day, everybody is happy that the call is right!

I am personally in favor or the CREW ON THE FIELD getting together on certain calls and getting in right. But if replay ever shows up on the diamond, I will have to give hard thought to whether I want to do this anymore.