Coaches in LBT

[BlitzkriegBob]

Today, me just being a spectator watching my daughter play. Fed game. We are visitors. Home team, while on defense, has all four coaches in LBT. While on offense, two of these coaches are within coaches boxes, but the other two remain in LBT. Never a word from either umpire. This was a doubleheader, so both had their shot behind the plate.

Would I be considered overly officious if I gave a team warning and had the coaches stay within their dugout? Is this localized enforcement? In other words, if other umpires in my area are overlooking this, should I do the same? Actually I don't know that they do, since the only time I experienced this previously was at this very same complex, and I made the coaches get inside their dugout.

[Four Seam]

As a coach for many years, I expect umpires for a varsity league game to enforce the rules, including the rule that on defense no coaches are in LBT.

One time playing at a field where the dugout and fences layout made it difficult for my catcher to see my pitch calls, I had my bucket almost completely outside of the dugout and into LBT. Blue, whom I knew well, came over and said "I won't make you go inside the dugout, but if a live ball hits you or your bucket I'll make a call and it won't be pretty."