Fair and Foul

[jTheUmp]

Once a ball is declared foul by an umpire, it is a foul ball.

Gotta put everyone back where they were at the time of the pitch (and add a strike to the batter's count if he had less than 2 strikes).

Then you're probably going to have to toss the Team A coach.

Then you're going to have to have a very serious and one-side conversation with your BU in the parking lot after the game. Topics including, but not limited to:
1) If you, as PU, have a foul call, it's your job to call it loudly enough for the world to hear it. And, even if you're unable to do so, the ball is dead once you declare it foul anyway, so the runners are going to return no matter what.
2) "He also said with more chalk on line he would have seen where ball was." So he was looking to see if the ball was fair or foul? WTF? Who was watching his responsibilities while he was watching yours?

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

Once a ball is declared foul by an umpire, it is a foul ball.

Gotta put everyone back where they were at the time of the pitch (and add a strike to the batter's count if he had less than 2 strikes).

Then you're probably going to have to toss the Team A coach.

Then you're going to have to have a very serious and one-side conversation with your BU in the parking lot after the game. Topics including, but not limited to:
1) If you, as PU, have a foul call, it's your job to call it loudly enough for the world to hear it. And, even if you're unable to do so, the ball is dead once you declare it foul anyway, so the runners are going to return no matter what.
2) "He also said with more chalk on line he would have seen where ball was." So he was looking to see if the ball was fair or foul? WTF? Who was watching his responsibilities while he was watching yours?

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Simply put the BU needs to own up to the mistake.

-Josh

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by jdmara

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Simply put the BU needs to own up to the mistake.

-Josh

Not just that... it seems to me he doesn't know he made a mistake - that he had no business making a fair/foul call at all... and worse that he should never echo his partner's fair/foul call (or almost any call, really).

[Rich]

There's a new 2013 NCAA rule that will allow this situation (a ball erroneously called foul) to be corrected and will allow the crew chief to place runners where he thinks they should go.

Quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with that.