First Game of the Year: Brutal.

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Originally Posted by SRW

.[*]With R on 2B, ground ball to F6, errant throw to F3 drawing off to her left. F3 caught the ball. I hold at HP a second to watch for pulled foot or swipe tag, and just as F3 caught the ball and was pulled off, F1 stepped in my way. My partner didn't make any call, just quickly came to me with "was there a tag?" Hell, I couldn't see a damn thing so I came up with a strong "no". DC decided to talk to us about that one.

Man that reminds me of a Regional Game I had about five years ago. It was a two out of three toury and had some good teams that had won State Tournaments before.
One out in the last inning, tieing runner on second, batter hits the ball down the first base line- F1 and F2 both are after the ball when F1 gets the ball and throws to F3 way out to the right. Base umpire calls her OUT. The base coach fans go wild saying she pulled her foot. He then comes to me. I swear- I could not tell who's feet was with which player. I had the base runner, F3 and F1 all right at the base and the catcher right in front of me. I had to go along with my buddy.
Due to the crowd there was only two people in the area of the field that did not see her pull her foot and both of them were wearing blue.
The HCoach, a regular State champion, comes running toward me saying you know she pulled her foot. The home fans, players and babies were yelling.
With all respect I told the coach that I was looking down the line but your catcher and pitcher got in the way and to be honest relaly did not see if she pulled her foot.
The Head coach didn't say another word to be and turned to his team saying "Ok lets get the runner home'. Had this been anywhere that I usually call I would have had trouble, but this coach had class.
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After the game I told him that I was sorry about not seeing her foot and he told me-- If you have said that she did not pull her foot you would of had to throw me out of the game. When you said that you did not see because of players then I knew it was just softball.
One of the few coaches in high school ball that I really respect!