Honesty is the best policy?

[David B]

A fly ball hit 365 feet with potential to be caught or bounce over the fence then BU should be covering it.

Unless the CF is moving in or toward left field.

As you said, this thread was over calling what is perceived,

if the BU goes out (and he should since this is a trouble ball) then there is no perceiving,

he knows for a fact if the ball is caught or if it bounces over the fence.

Thats just good umpiring and why they pay us the big bucks.

That's what I was trying to say.

Thanks
David

Originally posted by Jerry
"but if a ball is hit 365 feet to straight away center then the BU should be out there watching the play"

David,
In a 2-Man System, with BU in the A-Position, the Plate takes all fly balls from 2nd base to the left field stands. Once my partner sees that I'm heading to watch the flight of the ball, he needs to watch the BR. If my partner had turned to watch the ball instead, then you're correct; I would have been following the Batter/Runner.

That wasn't the point of this discussion though. It had to do with an official reversing his call based on the statements of a player versus what the umpire perceived.

Jerry