I saw it out of the corener of my eye.

[jwwashburn]

I am coaching my son's 9-u team in a tournament. They can leave the base when the pitcher lets go of the ball.

We have a coach that has also coached girl's Fastpitch and the leadoff is the same. He taught ofur guys a good technique and they get a good push off of the base. Opposing coaches usually don't like this.

Any wayyyyyyy, Friday night we stole 2nd base twice in the first inning even though they had a catcher with a pretty good arm. The defensive coach yells: Are ya gonna let them leave early all night?

The next kid stole and the Home Plate Umpire called time(by the way, the signal for time is: mask in right hand and left fist with the arm at a 90 degree angle...to think I have been putting both hands over my head all of these years) he says: "The runner must go back to first, he left too early...this is your only warning!" I replied: "Mr. Umpire, how are you watching that from back there?" Him: I saw it out of the corner of my eye! I looked at him and said-I am not joking: "I cannot wait to see what San Diego Steve says about this play. He looked at me quite oddly.

Joe In Missouri