Awarded bases and appeals.

[greymule]

I once saw an umpire call a runner out at home on a FORCE play in the following situation:

R1 on 1B, B2 hit liner over F8's head. R1 held up in case F8 made the catch, and both runners ran around the bases fairly close to each other. R1 rounded 3B and went home, while B2 stopped at 3B. Throw came in high to F2, who was standing with a foot touching the plate. R1 slid in safe (he thought), as tag was obviously late.

But PU called R1 out on force play, as B2 had reached 3B and therefore "forced" R1 at home. Coaches didn't know enough to dispute the call.

I've seen a hundred calls as bad or worse in games I've watched. How about out of the baseline when there was no attempted tag of the runner, just a fake throw?

Once a softball ump called one of my guys out for stepping on the plate as he ran to 1B after hitting a line drive through the infield. Luckily, the base ump reversed the call, but only after my batter got himself thrown out of the game. Then the other team disputed the reversal of the call, and one of their guys got tossed.

The same PU later called one of us out for stepping out of the batter's box. He thought the front of the box was at the same line as the front of the plate.

We should have a thread for "worst call I've ever seen," as long as people promise to be truthful.