Running Lane - Whose Call?

[jicecone]

Are you qualified to copy and paste "authoritative interpretations"?

[LMan]

Originally Posted by jicecone

Are you qualified to copy and paste "authoritative interpretations"?

I dont know Jim Evans and he will never work at my level, so what he has to say means nothing to me.

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by LMan

I dont know Jim Evans and he will never work at my level, so what he has to say means nothing to me.

The last I heard this publication has not been made official by MLB, NCAA or FED and it isn't what we use at the clinics I do and you'll notice he doesn't include the word "always."

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by LMan

I dont know Jim Evans and he will never work at my level, so what he has to say means nothing to me.

Well, I suggest you Google Jim Evans. He's had a hand in a few things at the highest levels of baseball.

Interestingly enough, he's been in the news in the last couple of days.

Jim Evans umpire academy files antitrust lawsuit against minor league baseball - The Washington Post

[jicecone]

I am more than sure LMan knows that!

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by jicecone

I am more than sure LMan knows that!

Sorry, I didn't see his emoticon in his post.

[LMan]

Originally Posted by Manny A

Sorry, I didn't see his emoticon in his post.

Sorry, I didn't know I had to be so obvious




emoticons are for the weak

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by CT1

Jeff:

I have never seen a published mechanics manual that has PU rotate to third when the ball stays in the infield. If the ball goes through the infield, there won't be a RLI call to be made.

The CCA has gone to this in the last year or two. The PU rotates to third even if the ball stays on the infield. I could be wrong, but I think someone said on one of the boards that the PBUC book says the same thing for 2-man.

Originally Posted by gordon30307

In discussing this with a friend there is indeed one situation where the base umpire makes this call. It happens only if HPU falls flat on his face unconscious and the base umpire is the only one awake to call it. So I guess it's plausible.

Disagreed. I am 100 percent with dwfump and his citation from Evans. From everything I have been taught (By very good NCAA umpires), the PU is primarily responsible for RLI, but the BU had better step up and call it if the PU doesn't for some reason and it's obvious.