Pregame duties question

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Originally Posted by Daryl H. Long

I read about this in a local paper. Just a few small sentences embedded in the game write-up but to me as an umpire very important.

Before a recent OHSAA Tournament game the paper quoted a coach as saying that upon arrival to the field both umpires came directly to him and stated that his pitcher's delivery motion they witnessed while she was warming up was illegal.

The coach was very classy and worked with his pitcher to comply to the umpires reqirements but it was obvious it put undue pressure on the pitcher and team in addition to the pregame jitters of a tournament game.

Your thoughts about the umpires decision to do what they did?

This used to be standard, and still is, in some areas. It comes under preventive umpiring. Luckily, the coach understood and instead of giving the umpires a hard time, he worked on getting the pitcher prepared.

Tell me there is a FP umpire on here that hasn't heard, "she's been pitching like that all year". I think you give the umpires the benefit of the doubt. Even in a state as small as mine, we constantly hear about how this or that is called in another part of the state which may or may not be correct.