Appeal/Missed call

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

Doubtful, in our experience, with accuracy. If he didn't see it, he didn't see it and reconstructing it less accurate that going with what the BU has.

So as the BU, you would be comfortable calling a BR out for making contact with a batted ball near the plate?

[Matt]

Originally Posted by yawetag

So as the BU, you would be comfortable calling a BR out for making contact with a batted ball near the plate?

In some cases, yes.

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by yawetag

So as the BU, you would be comfortable calling a BR out for making contact with a batted ball near the plate?

If I were 100% on it, sure. If I weren't 100%, it was foul.

I'd feel more comfortable calling it seeing it as BU than calling it and not seeing it as PU.

[Bob James]

Pregame: "if you see a batted ball off a player and I don't call it, you call it if you see it".

This. We cover this in every pre-game. My partner and I last night came up twice with "FOUL" calls, simply because I'm deliberately deliberate in my calls. I had both, but he was on the job. I certainly appreciated it. As for calling a batter out as a base umpire, it would have to be pretty darned obvious.

Cheers.

[dash_riprock]

Wang - I hope you get a massive case of operable anal warts very soon, like today.

Best regards!

Yours truly

Dash

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

I think a better mechanic would be for the BU to yell: "DEAD!!" and then let the PU determine if it is a foul ball, a Batter hit by a pitch, or the ball hit the Batter while the batter was out of the Batter's Box and in either Fair of Foul Territory. Just my two cents.

MTD, Sr.

[BretMan]

Except if you call a "dead ball" in a baseball game they want to string you up by your thumbs.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I think a better mechanic would be for the BU to yell: "DEAD!!" and then let the PU determine if it is a foul ball, a Batter hit by a pitch, or the ball hit the Batter while the batter was out of the Batter's Box and in either Fair of Foul Territory. Just my two cents.

MTD, Sr.

Ugh. "Dead ball" is a softball mechanic.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Ugh. "Dead ball" is a softball mechanic.

A ball becomes Dead when a pitched ball or a batted ball makes contact with the Batter correct? And since the PU is in the best position to rule as to whether the ball is a Foul Ball or a Hit by Pitch, then the BU yelling "DEAD!" seems appropriate to me whether the game is baseball or fastpitch softball.

MTD, Sr.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

A ball becomes Dead when a pitched ball or a batted ball makes contact with the Batter correct? And since the PU is in the best position to rule as to whether the ball is a Foul Ball or a Hit by Pitch, then the BU yelling "DEAD!" seems appropriate to me whether the game is baseball or fastpitch softball.

MTD, Sr.

It may seem appropriate to you, but it's not a correct baseball mechanic.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I think a better mechanic would be for the BU to yell: "DEAD!!"

I picture the defensive players, the batter, the on-deck hitter, the PU, and the bench personnel from both teams falling prone on the ground, then getting up and laughing their asses off.