Rainy weather, triple plays, and extra innings.

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

For those of you who do not live in NW Ohio and SE Michigan, the month of April has been one of the wettest in history which means lots of rained out baseball and softball games.

We had 21 days with rain out of 30 in April here in Chicago. What a miserable month...

If the "April showers bring May flowers" saying holds true, those flowers have enough rain for two months.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by briancurtin

We had 21 days with rain out of 30 in April here in Chicago. What a miserable month...

If the "April showers bring May flowers" saying holds true, those flowers have enough rain for two months.

I still managed to work 21 of the days, 9 rain outs (or "field not playable" or similar). One was a solo when partner didn't show.

[UmpJM]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

I still managed to work 21 of the days, 9 rain outs (or "field not playable" or similar). One was a solo when partner didn't show.

Plus one "the field's playable, the weather's pleasant, but the other team can't make it."

JM

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

The Home team quickly had runners on 1B and 2B with no outs, when B/R3 hit a line shot to F3 for the first out, F3 then tagged 1B for the second out, and then fired to F6 at 2B for the third out. A 3-3-6 triple play!!

Had an interesting double play over the weekend between the SF Giants and Wash Nats.

Giants have a runner on second with one out. Hot ground ball up the middle that the pitcher snags and he turns to find the SF runner in no-mans land half-way between 2nd and 3rd. The pitcher runs at the runner who is trying to get in a run down. But, the pitcher did an excellent job holding the ball and running right at the runner. The runner finally breaks for third and falls now trying to go back to second. The pitcher tags him out and then quickly throws to second where the SS tags out the batter trying to stretch the play.

While 1-6 may not be that much of an unusual double play (liner, then throw out), this one was kinda cool. A run down with no throws into a double play......

PS - yes, one of the runners was the SF catcher!

[rcaverly]

Originally Posted by grunewar

PS - yes, one of the runners was the SF catcher!

I, along with all the other former catchers on this board, would like to know exactly what you are insinuating with that remark!

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by rcaverly

I, along with all the other former catchers on this board, would like to know exactly what you are insinuating with that remark!

OK, let's just day he wasn't the fastest or quickest on the base path.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by rcaverly

I, along with all the other former catchers on this board, would like to know exactly what you are insinuating with that remark!

Speaking also as a former catcher, you know that the better majority of us are slower than maple syrup running down a tree in January in Vermont.

But, to take up for Buster Posey, he's quite a bit faster than Bengie Molina was!

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

It was a first today. I was able to wear a short sleeve shirt to umpire my game this afternoon.

MTD, Sr.