3rd Strike Caught on the Bounce

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Rich

Yes. You are the only person I've ever heard in 28 years of umpiring HS and college baseball that would even consider calling a HBP from the bases.

Add my 22. I think the discussion in the locker room with an official who called HBP from the bases with me at PU would not be a pleasant one. And I think that if I ever called this, I'd expect a bit of a dressing down in the locker room myself.

David keeps pointing to "getting it right"... I'm sorry - an umpire from 90-150 feet away does not replace the judgement of an umpire 5-10 feet away without the latter umpire's admission (to self) that he was blocked out on something and that latter umpire requesting input from the former.

IOW, if two people see the same play and both people think they saw everything they need to - but they differ on outcome, I'm trusting the guy 5-10 feet away over the guy 90-150 feet away. Our mechanics are drawn up that way in general for a reason.