Interesting play

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by bellsjc

Longhorn, I am addressing the question on why did the pitcher not get ejected for this clearly flagrant act. The video that I posted shows you that the home plate umpire did not put the ball back in play after time was called. An umpire that does not do the most basic thing as put the ball in play after time has been called cannot be expected to make the proper decisions on ejections.

He may or may not be a good umpire... but any of us who have been doing this a while and watching our "betters" at the MLB level have seen them fail to put the ball back in play hundreds of times. You've chosen an odd indicator for deciding this guy's worth.

[scrounge]

Isn't Fed the only code that requires the verbal "Play" after dead ball anyway? I thought NCAA and OBR have the implied play rule if no verbal declaration is made.

[DG]

I think it was too late to call time on the first pitch shown.

On the next one the pitcher should have been instantly ejected. He may have been, but I did not see PU give the big heave.

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by scrounge

Isn't Fed the only code that requires the verbal "Play" after dead ball anyway? I thought NCAA and OBR have the implied play rule if no verbal declaration is made.

All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").

And they all have the "implied play" if the umpires allow it.

Other than that, though, the post was correct.

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

All codes require the umpire to call "play" to make the ball live (NCAA says "call or indicate").

No debate here.

I just don't buy the argument that an umpire who forgets to call "play" one time that it was required somehow makes that umpire poor. We all have brain cramps every now and then.

[MD Longhorn]

Um ... how to say this...

All three codes require it, except that they don't.



And yes, forgetting this tiny thing doesn't invalidate the entirety of an umpires abilities.