Sunday Afternoon Men's League

[BK47]

Had a men's league DH today. Sloppy ball for the most part and to top it off it was hot and humid the first game however just hot the second. Had the dish the first game and although the play was not all that good I had a good call at the plate. Situation: R1, 1 out, RHB, 2-1 count (I think doesn’t matter really on the count). Next pitch R1 stealing second, batter misses on the swing but the swing was so hard he corkscrewed himself all the way around and used his bat to hold himself up, however in doing so he stretched his bat across the plate and the catcher ran into it as he made his throw to second. I pointed to the batter and held out my fist for a delayed dead ball to see if we got the runner or not. Didn’t get the runner however I called the batter out for Batter Interference and sent the runner back to first. The team at bat thought that the runner could stay at second because he got it but I said no.

In the second game I was in the field and had a good call at third. Situation: R3, R2, 1 out. Batter hits a slow ground ball to F3, F3 fields the ball and sees R3 heading for home, he throws the ball to F2 and got the runner in a rundown between home and third. Runner makes it back to third however by this time R2 was now standing on third too. Catcher tags R2 and I point to him and say “You’re Out”, then for some reason R3 leaves the base and a tag is made on him, “You’re out too”. Inning over. They didn’t like that and tried to argue with me that I was wrong. I plainly told the runner that the rule is if two runners occupy the same base, the proceeding runner is out. He said “No way, we just had this happen to us last night too.” I just looked at him and shook my head, guess they didn’t learn from last night’s lesson.