Tonites elimination round 2 of PONY inter-city tourney. Second game I am on sacks, 1st inning takes almost 45 minutes....Home is up 10-1 after 1. Visitors got some game, though. They scrap back and tie it top 7, hold Home off in bottom 7 with R2 and R3, 1 out. Visitors strand R2 with 1 out top 8. Bottom 8, home gets lead-off batter on and eventually has the sacks loaded with no outs. Infield pulls in, I am in C. F1 engages in wind-up. F6 is yelling, "STEP OFF, Step off!!" Well, f1 does so, with his left foot(yup, he's a righty) I see it, pause a moment and NOBODY says anything! I determine to myself that there was no intent to decieve, I say nada. F6 looks at me(he's right by me, and pitched 5 tonite) I just give a little smile. He walks up casually and sez, " He balked" I sez "yup, tell him to watch it, I don't wanna be a sh*thead tonite". Next pitch is slammed to F6, he short-hops and makes the play at home. Next batter hits towering shallow fly to F7, R3 tags and scores via a way bad throw, game over...12-11.
So now, how many of you would have nailed this kid for a balk???
On a side note, my pard for the DH was my assignors nephew. 20 year old I have umped for years. He went to Evans 3 day camp thing and came back with an exceptional amount of mechanic knowledge....better than most all of my FED pards, kid has it going on!!!!(More on his "Uncle Assignor" later) Time to eat dinner, 11:40 PST, we started at 5:10(2 games).....
Sat Jun 14, 2003, 01:43am
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