We Kicked it! Bad mechanics?

[Warren Willson]

Originally posted by mick
Last night, two-man, Senior LL, trailing team at bat with bases jammed and 2 out. Me at C. Favorite partner is PU.

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We both saw the dive the catch and the ball in the glove. Neither of us saw the drop and bounce.

My question is, what could we have done, should have done, differently to get that right?

mick

What should you have done? You should have started that game with either 4 or 6 umpires! That way the catch/no catch on the base line would have been reasonably well covered. *BIG grin*

I disagree with DownTownTonyBrown that your PU partner could have done any more by "busting" further down the line. This was a bases loaded situation, so going up the line any more than the 15 feet your PU partner did would have made any following time play calls at home plate virtually impossible. In fact, in his place I wouldn't have gone up the line at all! Instead I would have dropped back to 1BLE and tried to keep it all in front of me! That wouldn't have made it any easier to call that catch/no catch, or the fair/foul for that matter, but that was never going to be easy using a 2-man system on that play!

BTW, some of my colleagues might have told that manager "Look in the book, Skip. We called what we saw. If you want better coverage, pay for more umpires." After all, if he truly KNEW that you couldn't possibly have seen that play, why bother to make you feel bad by telling you that you had got it wrong? I guess misery loves company. Personally I'm not that much of a red a$$, so I'd just nod my unspoken "Thank you" and say nothing.

Hope this helps

Cheers.