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That's really too bad. Feel free to call it that way when you make the show. Until then, your superiors at the highest levels of both OBR and FED have clearly told us not to call the out on a neighborhood play like this one.
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That's not what I envision happening here: F6 stepped directly *over* the bag, and as such was still exposed to R1. Again, if F6 receives the throw *after* stepping over the base, I've got a "safe". |
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As a mechanics aside, most manuals currently have you in B Modified with R1 only, unless you have a LH batter in NCAA.
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I have a couple of questions regarding this type of play.
1) Why do we need to allow a "neighborhood" type double play under any rulesets that have slide rules ?? The middle infielders have plenty of options to avoid incoming baserunners. I allow some leeway under OBR, if a fielder is protecting himself. 2) If this fielder missed the base by as much as claimed here, how do you sell your call to the head coach, who is probably standing in the 3rd base coaching box 100 feet away with a clear view of the play ?? Especially when you're probably 10 to 15 feet away from it. Why be there if you're not going to call something so obvious to everyone in the stadium ?? In my opinion, you handled this play correctly. I probably would have called "Safe, no bag" and signaled multiple times like you did.
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We don't.
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Ummm, why would you need to sell a Safe call on a runner to the third base coach?
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Did you miss the part about it potentially being the HEAD COACH !!!
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I think the question is ... why do we need to sell the call to a guy you just said had a very clear view of the play? And why would the 3BC need to be sold that his runner was SAFE... he's certainly not going to complain about it.
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I obviously have confused some people here. I'm addressing those who think an "out" call is the correct call on these types of plays. You have to sell that "out" call to the head coach who had a clear view of the play.
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Also, don't you know by now all coaches think they have a clear view of the play. Pete Booth
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I agree he's where he's supposed to be, but I don't agree that from that same position he can't see the slide at second base. In his comments he basically said he wasn't watching the play - that is what I have issue with. Thanks David |
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