Actually it was one of doz dere political conspiracies. The Taliban are trying to take over LL players and then do one of does mind changing experiments on dem. This year baseball, next year bomb carrying terrorist..

Get the LL officials to change their call and next thing you know they will be running for President and building religious sites on existing LL fields and then wanting to take over Babe Ruth and Pony baseball.

Got some land in Florida for sale, interested?

I disagree. Being in the batters box does not eliminate the requirement for a batter to make a reasonable attempt to get out of the way of the pitch as I understand the rule. I'm not claiming that I would have made that ruling, but I do think a legitimate case could be made for making such a call. I will always give the batter the benefit of the doubt if they turn, lean, etc. but I don't feel that this batter necessarily did any of these actions.

The pitch was down in the dirt.
His "move" was he started to lower his stance to go down to get the pitch...his initial instinct was to hit the ball.
This sitch was not an example of a batter not making a reasonable effort to aviod a HBP.
As bad as a cluster flub this sitch was 4 umps, 2 of them what...75 ft. away and they can't see an HBP, and then the ensuing "oh let's go to the video replay" by the meddling, all knowing, lets inject ourselves into the umpiring of the game, LLBB Eastern Region administrative and UIC staff, all you have is a missed call. Going with the other call you have a bad application of a rule.

using Papa C's words, only Smitty calls the hitter back for not moving on that pitch...$hitty end of the stick there fellas. No way, no how, (assuming you have a hit by pitch) do you keep the batter batting on that pitch.

There was the root of the problem.

I can't believe you really have been doing this for a long time.

The umpire (the guy behind the catcher, not the replay official) didn't even see the ball hit the player, let alone, hit him on purpose.

Do you also brush off the bases?

WHAT DID I SAY THAT DESERVED THIS SMART A** RESPONSE FROM YOU !!! I stated that I PROBABLY WOULD NOT HAVE MADE THIS CALL however am I incorrect in saying that a batter must make a reasonable attempt to avoid being hit by a pitch ???

F.Y.I. ... I have been umpiring a long time (over 30 years to be exact). I think I have some clue about the game !!!

Lets start off with the fact that you would even CONSIDER making that call at all, then take it one step further and post the consideration.

I will just let the facts speak for theirself.

Four umpires and none of them saw this? I'm sorry, but this is just poor umpiring. So now, LL is going to try and get every call right by having "board meetings" with each other and then meeting with the "mystery man" behind the back stop? This is a joke! All of this is because of poor training, poor organization and the "need" to keep everyone happy.

This is baseball! Okay, it's LL, but it's still baseball! Umpires are supposed to make decisions and judgement calls. The calls may not be popular and they may not even be correct but that is how the game is supposed to be run. And don't give me that "trying to get the call right" crap because if you really want to go down that road, why not have a do-over because the base coach made a mistake in telling the runner to go? Yeah, and let's have a do-over because F7 dropped the catch. He really tried, so let's do the play over or better yet, record the out! The kid made a great attempt so why take the catch away just because he dropped the ball!

According to the rules, a case could be made for making that call. I agree with you that I would not have based on how far that pitch was off the plate. The point of my original post however, was that (for the sake of discussion) if the umpire ruled that the batter didn't make a reasonable attempt to avoid the pitch, would the replay official be able to reverse the umpires decision ??? I would think not, but was throwing this out as a question.

Please show me where the word "reasonable" is written in the rule book regarding hit by pitch. Take your time. Quit making up rules.

With all due respect sir, length of time umpiring doesn't tell me anything about how well you can umpire.

JMHO, but if the ball's in the dirt, or the feet, the batter does not have to avoid that one. I actually want them to get hit on those, as it won't be hitting me. No one is going to intentionally let the ball hit them in the ankles/feet. It's not like taking one off the arm or shoulder.

Take your base, son.

YGTBSM.

For the win!! :D:D

Hey, sometimes 30 years experience is 30 years experience. Other times it's 1 year of experience repeated 30 times.

The whole issue is not whether or not the batter was HBP. The umpires didn't call that, and the video doesn't show very good evidence either. What has gotten everyone stirred up is the fact that the call was overruled by someone outside the fence. LL did implement a replay system for the World Series in Williamsport only. As you can hear in part 2 the DAC makes that statement. The other $h!+storm is the original statement by LL that the umpire asked them for help. As you can see in the video, the PU has the batter in the box and is ready to play ball when you hear him tell the batter to back out. Then he turns around and then goes to the screen. It was originally spun that PU went to the screen on his own and asked for help. As you can see in mbcrowder's posts, the truth is finally beginning to come out.