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[Mbilica]

Originally Posted by EsqUmp

If you focus toward the cap of the barrel of the bat, you should be able to get these correct.

If I am in B or C and I see the cap of the barrel, the whole field will know the batter swung. I have never been asked to make that call as the PU gets it every time.

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[Andy]

Originally Posted by Mbilica

If I am in B or C and I see the cap of the barrel, the whole field will know the batter swung. I have never been asked to make that call as the PU gets it every time.

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So you have never been in a game where the PU has to focus on a low outside pitch or where the catcher jumps up and blocks the PUs field of vision?

[Mbilica]

Originally Posted by Andy

So you have never been in a game where the PU has to focus on a low outside pitch or where the catcher jumps up and blocks the PUs field of vision?

The only time something happened to me like that, it was a left handed batter and I was at first. I mentioned that one earlier in the thread. I ruled strike and had to deal with a coach who questioned my mechanics and an assignor who called me the same night after the game. That being said, I think everyone knew the batter had swung. The assignor just wanted to know what I had seen because he had to deal with the coach complaining to him. I didn't get any heat for it, in the end.

Frankly, 90% of my career baseball assignments have been behind the plate. I have only been an umpire for 5 years, making varsity in my second season. Last season I had a full slate of varsity games and not a single base assignment. This year, 3/4 of my assignments were plate assignments and I only got base assignments because I requested to get some experience there. So, I suppose this could happen to me some day but just hasn't happened yet.

In softball, I get a few base assignments, but still, I receive far more plate assignments than I do base assignments.

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