Who's responsible for keeping track of "auto-outs"?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally posted by Alameda
Hey all.

New here and to Umpiring. I have torn threw the manual and can't find where this particular part of the rule is addressed.

I'm doing low div C0-ED games, and today one of the teams played the game with 9 players. At one point, the official score keeper mentioned that she thought one of the automatic outs hadn't been recorded in a previous inning. The PU said she thought they had all been recorded. I was playing the field, and wasn't sure myself. Fortunately the game was decided by a handful of runs, so the outcome was not in question. This is a lowly div in a city league in San Francisco and NOBODY wears numbers. With 3 games and 6 teams, are we suppose to remember faces and names?? *shrugs shoulders*

Who -is- responsible for keeping track of this (from what I saw the short-handed team was telling the PU when that spot came up).

TYIA, hope I didn't miss an obvious part of the ASA Umps manual.

[Edited by Alameda on Apr 8th, 2005 at 06:21 AM]

If your "official" scorekeeper is a paid official, it is THEIR responsibility to alert the umpire. If not, it is the umpire's job. As an umpire, I'm going to make it my business to know when that slot in the batting order comes into play.

And as a back-up, I usually go to whomever is keeping score for the other team and tell them they need to make me aware of when that slot is approaching.