Bob Jenkins at the Plate
 

Frequent contributor (and umpire God) Bob Jenkins has the plate for the IHSA 3A championship game Saturday, Noon CT.

Link up:

http://www.ihsa.org/video/index.htm

Congratulations, Bob.

Bob, congratulations
 

That is indeed an honor, and obviously you are as good as your posts here, except when we disagree :).

Have fun and enjoy the day, like we hope Tee did.

Well,
 

jk:

Had a great time doing the Oregon 6A Championship game.

It is always interesting when you have a three umpire crew that have never worked together prior to the "big" game. But U3 and the PU were just great guys.

We had little to do since there were few base runners (i.e. we were never in a situation that required a reverse rotation).

http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonl...seball_ti.html

Regards,

Tim

Edit:

By the way: I got a 9.75 from umpires watching the game for my famous "reverse spin, double Sulkow".

T

Tim -

You probably got your score dragged down by the East German judge.

Always an honor, congrats Bob you deserve it I'm sure.

Should be lots of fun, hopefully have a good game to umpire.

Pretty neat that they are streaming the games. MS is still behind the times, but we did start getting the games on live public TV this year for the first time.

Thanks
David

Only a 9.75, must have been the Russian judge ... (g)

Looked like a good game from the fans perspective.

Thanks
David

I'd blame the Frog.

He just booted Shane Blair, the catcher from Rock Falls.
You have to do what you have to do.

NM 2A championship
 

I am PU for the game

http://nmaa.tv/loving_hs.htm
click on the baseball tab

Hey, what's up with not announcing the umpires.

I would have liked to see you guys on the field for the anthem ...

Is this FED rules? or other?

I kept hearing air horns on the video and of course those are illegal in FED.

Thanks
David

Tee, good to see a poster from here in action. A few questions:

-I don't think I saw you point fair on the play starting at 28 seconds.
-You seem to like the "safe! safe!" call.
-At 2 minutes 52 seconds how come you made the out call on the tag and not your plate partner?

I'm not trying to nitpick or show you up. Just looking to learn from a veteran with some video clips.

The play starting at 28 seconds is a ground ball up the middle. You must mean the play starting at 8 seconds or so -- a ball down the right field line. I expected a signal there, but it's not a huge deal. Tee can tell us if he wishes he would've signaled there.

U1 made the call on the tag because the runner was past the 45' line (start of the running lane). Before the 45' line, the tag belongs to the PU, afterwards, to U1.

Missed it. When did it happen?

canada
 

The first ball that was hit to right was fair by about 15' when it started out. I saw no reason to signal fair . . . because I did not know what the RF corner looked like at ground level I decided to go. What I did do wrong was NOT signal "SAFE" afer the ball bounced off the fence.

I have always "sold" close "safe" calls with a double "SAFE." Just a habit from many, many years of working.

I thought the "out on the tag" call was obviously my call as the BR had passed the 45' line. Also I looked at the PU before making the call and he "nodded" as I took the call.

My eval was good.

When asked "why did you go out on the ground ball to right field?" my answer was:

"Three umpires and one runner . . . why wouldn' I go out?"

I was given highest marks for hustle, judgement, mechanics, fraternization, timing and rules knowledge. My only "ding" was for "leaving the infield too quickly at the end of an inning."

Good crew and good game.

Regards,