D3K Interpretation

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by youngump

The veterans are often doing enough codes that they might well make a mistake. But I'm with you it's tough to correct them if you're not 100% sure. I had a really good ump I was working with tell me that I needed to issue a warning when I called obstruction (FED) because the second offense was restriction to dug out. Right rule, wrong code, but I'm not sure enough to argue with somebody who knows what they are doing and it seemed reasonable enough. It's an especially tough situation if your partner says something wrong to a coach with you standing there. Even if you're right when you correct him, you're both going to look dumb.

Problem is, with this rule, it is the same in all codes that I know of. There are actually very few differences between the many codes of softball.