Preventative Umpiring

[bossman72]

Well there are many things that go on during a game which "preventative umpiring" will come into play.

For example- pitcher is coming set, but he's very close to balking. Using Preventative umpiring, i would go up to the pitching rubber, act like i'm kicking dirt off and say to the pitcher "hey bud, make sure you're coming to a complete stop before you deliver. you're close to balking."

This will usually make the pitcher set better.


That is just one example. There are a bunch of other instances where that comes into play; though the basis of preventative umpiring is to stop crap before crap happens.