1 or 2 Base Award?

[Bfair]

When it comes to awards, Pat, sometimes you just have to follow the rules.

I just got in from doing a Fed game where a batter hit the ball to the plate causing a very high hop to occur up the 1B line about 3 ft. fair. F2 jumps out to glove it while the batter is hightailin' up the 1B line. However, whallah! Where did the ball go? As it came down it apparently came off the catcher's glove and he attempted to pin it to his chest--but he couldn't find it. Nobody else saw it drop to the ground. He spins several times looking for the ball, but it's nowhere to be found......until about 10 seconds later when he realizes that it has gone down his chest protector. The crowd got quite a chuckle from the play.

To the objection of the defensive coach, I awarded 2 bases to the batter. It seems like this runner should not get 2 bases as he likely felt lucky in reaching 1B safely. Still, the award is 2 bases---as I suspect the coach has by now found out after looking it up when he got home......LOL.

$hit happens.........


Freix