LL Rules -vs- FED rules

[Rich Ives]

Roger - here's a couple of happenings in a recent game with a trained, paid umipre.

I got the benefit so don't try that road.

Bases loaded, no out, batter hits a weak humpback toward F6. My F6 charges hard and tries a desparate shoestring catch but short-hops it. Ump calls IF. "Enemy" R2 had started to advance. We threw to 2B. Ump calls "out" when the base is tagged - runner was NOT tagged.

"Enemy" runner trapped between 2B and 3B. My F4 throws ball out of play. Ump awards runner 3B, saying it's 1+1, runner was headed to 2B so he gets 2B + 3B.

Of course there was also the time a few years back when another "trained" paid umpire called a batted ball that hit third base foul, the apologized by saying "OOPS! I was thinking iof the High School rule."


Trained and Paid are NOT synonyms. Paid does not = competent. Volunteer does not - incompetent.