3rd Strike In The Dirt

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

Rich Ives: Can you enlighten me as to the Eddings play? Maybe I need to make a change. Thanks.

I'm not Rich, but here's the play. World Series (game 6?) A J Pierzinski at bat (I'm sure I misspelled that) with 2 strikes and 2 outs. Pitch near the dirt, batter swings. F2 thinks he caught it and rolls the ball to the mound. BR takes off thinking F2 didn't catch it. Doug Eddings, PU, says nothing and watches all of this transpire.

With BR standing on 1B, the umpires huddle, determine no catch, and leave BR on 1B. Next batter doubles, runner scores, White Sox win, go on to win the Series. One umpire's call turned the tide (or so many Cardinals fans will tell you).

One more thing: Eddings signaled the swing (hand straight out) AND the out (hammer). That didn't seem to matter.

[dash_riprock]

Thanks MB - I remember it now. That is, for sure, a "need to know if it's a catch" situation. Can't be silent there.

But on a DTS when the B/R cannot advance, I'm calling the strike and nothing else. If you loudly call "batter's out! batter's out!" when the B/R cannot advance, as some have suggested, sooner or later you will do it with 2 outs and the bases loaded. And everyone stops. Now what?

If you never call it, you will never F it up.

[bob jenkins]

Somewhere in the FED case book, there's a case where the PU is instructed to "forcefully" call the batter out when he attempts to run in a situation when he can't. (okay -- I could probably word that in a better way.)

It's not everytime the batter is out.

I use that at all levels -- telling the runners they don't need to leave the base and telling the defense they don't need to make a play.

ymmv.