Does the run count?

[griff901c]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

Similar play that actually happened. Bottom of the 9th, 2 out bases loaded. Batter takes ball four, then takes a few steps towards the dugout thinking the game is over. Home plate umpire tells him "touch first base" so the batter goes and touches first, and the game ends. Could this game have been protested?

HUH? Why make this game any harder than it is? He is entitled to the base he is awarded. If you have to grab him by the ear..he is still gets the award.

griff

[johnnyg08]

You can protest anything you want...you won't win everytime that's for sure...they may even say "hey, you can't protest that..." but you can always ask.

[justanotherblue]

I think they call that preventative umpiring.

[griff901c]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

You can protest anything you want...you won't win everytime that's for sure...they may even say "hey, you can't protest that..." but you can always ask.

No you can't protest anything you want. Judgement calls come to mind. Fair/foul...ball/strike... etc.

A misapplication of a rule...yes.

griff

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by griff901c

No you can't protest anything you want. Judgement calls come to mind. Fair/foul...ball/strike... etc.

A misapplication of a rule...yes.

griff

correct...but they can "protest" and as I said above...I would simply say, "you can't protest that"

[griff901c]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

correct...but they can "protest" and as I said above...I would simply say, "you can't protest that"

Tomato.. Tamoto.. I get it..my bad

griff

[RPatrino]

I think the confusion may center around what we consider a 'protest'. To me, that is a formal process where a team asks to have a missapplication of a rule reversed. Some may think that a coach who comes out to discuss a call is 'protesting' , but not in the formal sense.

Now, the thought that someone could protest 'anything they want' really depends on the body that is accepting and ruling on the 'protest'. When I worked in LL, a game I worked was 'protested' because the house rules stated that no inning shall start after 7pm. The visiting team manager protested that I started the bottom of the 6th inning after 7 PM. The protest was upheld, because "I did not accurately determine what the correct time was" (per BOD, I should have checked with both managers to determine the 'correct' time). So the bottom of the 6th was wiped off the books, and the game stood as a tie.

This was one of my last LL games I worked for this particular league.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by RPatrino

When I worked in LL, a game I worked was 'protested' because the house rules stated that no inning shall start after 7pm. The visiting team manager protested that I started the bottom of the 6th inning after 7 PM. The protest was upheld,

Huh? An Inning includes both the top and the botom of the inning. So, unles you started the TOP of the inning after 7:00, the protest should have been disallowed. (Unless, of course, the local rule was "no half-inning shall start...")