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Old Wed Jul 16, 2008, 12:04am
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Have any of you seen an umpire shake his leg for a pitch called a ball? (Think of the hokey pokey where they tell you to shake your left leg all about). Nope, I never saw this either until tonight. He also made some weird hand gesture when the other team's pitcher was called for an IP. I won't even try to describe that.

Not much else, although the other team did get a 7-8 flyout against us when our batter's fly ball glanced off the left fielder's glove and into the center fielder's glove since she was right behind him. That was quite the sight.
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Old Wed Jul 16, 2008, 02:26am
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Have any of you seen an umpire shake his leg for a pitch called a ball? (Think of the hokey pokey where they tell you to shake your left leg all about). Nope, I never saw this either until tonight. He also made some weird hand gesture when the other team's pitcher was called for an IP. I won't even try to describe that.
Did he do the hokey pokey after every ball???

An IP is a delayed dead ball, so he might have been doing some variation of the right arm extended out. Or continuing the hokey pokey?
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Old Wed Jul 16, 2008, 07:52am
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Maybe his cup wasn't a good fit?
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Old Wed Jul 16, 2008, 08:18pm
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Did he do the hokey pokey after every ball???

An IP is a delayed dead ball, so he might have been doing some variation of the right arm extended out. Or continuing the hokey pokey?
It wasn't the DDB signal. I'm familiar with that from FP and I'd be on here praising the umpire if he actually used the DDB signal as he called IP.

The best I can describe it is that it looked like he was turning some sort of knob.

Although I did realize something today, on a taken pitch, if I don't see the hammer or hear "strike" it's probably a ball, regardless of what gesture is used.
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Old Wed Jul 16, 2008, 09:33pm
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Did he do the hokey pokey after every ball???

An IP is a delayed dead ball, so he might have been doing some variation of the right arm extended out. Or continuing the hokey pokey?
The signal for a delayed dead ball is the left arm extended.
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The signal for a delayed dead ball is the left arm extended.
Walt don't tell me you work softball, too?
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