What a Ploy.......

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

Last night during the first few innings of my game, every time the home team would allow a runner to get to third, one or two pitches to the next batter were thrown clearly inside the lines of the batters box in what I was sure was an attempt to drive the batter back out of the box. Each time, the batter would bail out to avoid the pitch. Then the catcher would come up and attempt a throw to pick off R3. Every time this happened, the rat b@$t@d manager would argue for an INT call because the batter stepped back. There was no doubt from the way he argued the rule that he knew the rule well and that this was a designed ploy to draw an INT call. It took me by surprise, and I'm curious how you all would have handled it.


Tim.

"Hey coach, if your pitcher would keep the ball out of the batter's box, that wouldn't happen!"

[RPatrino]

Tim, you handled it properly, warn then eject. It has been my experience that if you ignore something as serious as this, things will eventually become unmanagable. As one of our most famous umpires, Barnie Fife would say, "nip it in the bud, Andy!"