Personal foul - late hit

[mick]

Originally Posted by JPRempe

But giving advice to any player is, in my mind, an ethics violation (although in your case a very minor one). As umpires we are supposed to enforce the rules and regs in an unbiased fashion.

Anyway, it was made abundantly clear to my association that no umpire should ever give advice to players in the game he/she is umpiring.

Well, then call it a polite ***warning***.
It is what it is.

[Steve M]

Even at 16&U, if I don't say something to F2, I'd be concerned about players trying to police the game themselves. So I suspect I'd have said something to the same extent that Tom did, quickly enough that the runner heard too.

[Ran.D]

Our association this year made a big point about defensive malicious contact. One could argue that the catcher falling on the runner after the play was over could be exactly that.

If no call, a strong warning.

As the father of a 16U catcher, I can tell you......they don't like runners scoring on them. Innocent?........maybe.

[Dholloway1962]

Just read this thread so pardon my delay....If you were in NFHS on this play would you have considered the "new" defensive malicious contact?

[Steve M]

Originally Posted by Dholloway1962

Just read this thread so pardon my delay....If you were in NFHS on this play would you have considered the "new" defensive malicious contact?

I'm going to have to see a whole lot more than I have pictured here to consider this malicious. There's been disagreement over whether something should be said, whether or not a warning should be given, and you're asking if the catcher should be tossed?