Third base coverage

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by collint1993

None, Its 12u, 13u, and 14u. And it has always worked for me. It may not be correct for high school or higher levels, but I am 18 and I'm not old enough to do those.

The 2-umpire system is designed to maximize coverage for all possible outcomes, including the ones that wouldn't occur to you. If you're old enough to work with a partner, you're old enough to learn the right way.

I worked a game last weekend after a 16 year-old umpire working by himself for a different league. He had the most remarkable array of bad habits, from signaling strikes with his left hand on down. I thought: here's a kid who will have worked maybe 150 games before he turns 18, and he'll be useless to the association because he'll be so hard to retrain. What a shame.

Baseball is baseball, and umpiring is umpiring. It's not too late to get yourself some proper training. All your future partners will thank you.