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I was calling a FED game last night where the coach of the defensive team requested time out and came to the mound to talk to his infielders. As he approached the mound, he threw a ball to his F5 who played catch with F6 as the coach talked with the pitcher on the mound. I told him he could not do that. He stopped without questioning me, but after the game, I decided to look this up to be sure. I cannot find anything anywhere that does not allow this. Any help?
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Just wondering why it would bother you enough that you'd feel the need to make up rules to justify your need to prove that you're in charge. It's a non issue, and not against the rules at all.
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its a issue when fit-yet-interested ump needs to stack uphis post count
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There was a time that some FED clinicians tried to sell prohibiting it as a "safety" concern. One told me that there should only be one ball on the field. When I pointed out to him that we had no concern of such safety issues when the infielders warmed up at the beginning of each half inning, the response he could come up with was: "that's different, that's traditional." Bottom line, it's legal. Only an OOO would try to stop it.
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SITUATION 10: Coach of Team A requests and is granted time for a defensive charged conference. As he goes to the mound to talk with his pitcher, he tosses a ball to his third baseman and tells him to begin warming up with his shortstop in case he is needed to pitch. The coach leaves the mound without removing the pitcher. RULING: This is not allowed. A charged conference permits a coach or his non-playing representative to confer with a defensive player or players but does not permit any warm-up pitches by a player who is not the pitcher. (3-4-1) |
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If you're interested ... this ruling doesn't FIT.
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If a coach brings out a ball for a specific player he probably has a specific reason. I'm not an OOO but I would be inclined to stop it, or at the very least make it a very quick conference. Similar but different sitch As def. coach approaches mound for conference F6 yells to F1 and says"hey Joe, throw me the ball" F6 and F5 play catch during conference with no apparent direction from coach, now I have nothing. Last edited by CO ump; Thu Aug 23, 2007 at 11:11am. |
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Let's change the situation (without starting a new thread)" 1. Let's say a pitching change is being made. Coach then tosses ball to F1 who throws "grounders" to F4, F5, and F6 who throw the ball back to F1. Is this okay in your games? 2. Pitching change is not being made, just a conference. Again, coach then tosses ball to F1 who throws "grounders" to F4, F5, and F6 who throw the ball back to F1. Is this okay in your games?
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This is another one of those funky FED rulings that opens a fresh can of worms.
If the coach doesn't verbally indicate that he's giving the kids the ball besause one of them "might be needed to pitch", then I guess you just have two guys throwing a ball around. It takes two to toss it. Without some verbal indication, how do you know which kid is warming up and which is the surrogate catcher? Aren't they both essentially "warming up"? Absent the verbal, "Here you go, Lefty. Start warming up to pitch", if no pitching change was made during the visit to the mound, how do you know if one of them was really warming up? Suppose you let the two kids throw it around, but no pitching change is made at that time. Does this preclude bringing either of the two players in to pitch at some point later in the game? If not, how would you retroactively go back and tell somebody not to do something they already did two innings ago that is clearly a violation? Inquiring minds want to know! ![]() |
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