Missed Home Plate

[Chess Ref]

ASA SP ruleset.

Got a runner coming to the plate, got the catcher set up in front of the plate, got the ball coming also. Its gonna be close. So the runner goes for a tag on the inside corner of home plate but misses the plate. Catcher also misses the tag.
Runner slides about 5 feet past home, jumps up,and immediatly goes for home. Catcher again misses the tag and runner scores. Defensive team wanted an out for missing the plate. I had nothing.

I read 8-7-I and it talks about a proper live ball appeal. There was no appeal just a catcher missing the tag ,again.

Was my call correct ?

[NDblue]

Call is correct.

[SRW]

Sounds good to me.

[DaveASA/FED]

Yep call was good. But by attempting to tag that runner the catcher was performing a live ball appeal in a sense. Now where you could have gotten an out is if the F2 would have tagged the plate and said something about the runner missing the base prior to them returning.

[Chess Ref]

Originally Posted by DaveASA/FED

Yep call was good. But by attempting to tag that runner the catcher was performing a live ball appeal in a sense. Now where you could have gotten an out is if the F2 would have tagged the plate and said something about the runner missing the base prior to them returning.

In regards to the stepping on the plate and appealing I thought that would have worked but,alas, thats not what happened.

[greymule]

I agree that the call in the OP was correct.

With missed bases, ASA has no stipulation (as in OBR) about having to tag a runner who is "in the vicinity" of the bag or returning to touch it. An immediate appeal is permitted, and is even given as an example in a case play.

My question would be, If the fielder's tagging of the base is an unmistakable appeal of an obvious miss, do I as the umpire still require that the fielder state his appeal?

After all, we don't require such when a runner is halfway to 2B when F3 catches a line drive and steps on 1B.