Two-ump question - check swing

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by PWL

You still don't get it. There is nothing about screwing the pooch involved. I stated, I felt that in my book the batter had swung. The call could go either way. I've been asked to go on appeals I didn't think were even close and have gotten the strike call. Whatever he decided was not even relevent to the case in point. Just give me a simple safe or out mechanic. Better he learn when there is someone willing to teach him, than when there is someone out there with that doesn't know or care. Hopefully, he learned from it.

A word wasn't even muttered about the call. Don't read so much into it. There are worse calls out there they can make which will get them into hot water faster than a checked swing.

I wonder just whom it is that doesn't get it.

Originally Posted by PWL

I felt that in my book the batter had swung.

If you had an attempt, why did you call it a ball and then go for help? This isn't about what your partner did or didn't do.


Tim.