Slow Pitch never ceases to amaze me.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by DeputyUICHousto

Bases loaded...batter walks. "Runner" from 3rd walks in and whild talking to someone in the stands misses the plate. I'm standing there with the catcher just waiting...sure enough, "Blue, doesn't he have to touch the plate?", "Yes as a matter of fact he does Mr. Catcher."

I'm amazed that this can actually happen even in a slow pitch game.

Hot damn! One less out to get to the 42.

[bkbjones]

And if it helped so's you just had to get 38 others, so much the better!

[NCASAUmp]

I'd say about 98% of the missed bases I see during the course of the season are never appealed. Even the dead obvious ones (like a male runner running almost directly to 2B in a coed game when he gets walked).

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

My only two high school softball games this Spring were rained out but I have had 3 missed HP's and MTD, Jr. has had 2 missed HP's in high school baseball this Spring and every time the catcher was clueless to the fact.

MTD, Sr.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

My only two high school softball games this Spring were rained out but I have had 3 missed HP's and MTD, Jr. has had 2 missed HP's in high school baseball this Spring and every time the catcher was clueless to the fact.

MTD, Sr.

And in either game, that is the result of poor coaching.

[HugoTafurst]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

And in either game, that is the result of poor coaching.

Exactly..
Not that I really give a sh1t as an umpire, but as a fan, I always like it when I see a catcher (or F3 for that matter) glancing back to see the touch when a runner is scoring or passing a base on a no brainer.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by HugoTafurst

Exactly..
Not that I really give a sh1t as an umpire, but as a fan, I always like it when I see a catcher (or F3 for that matter) glancing back to see the touch when a runner is scoring or passing a base on a no brainer.

I used to play on a team that had a designated "watcher". Everyone in the infield was to watch the runners and bases while the "watcher" in the dugout watched the umpire and what the umpire watched.

We averaged about an out a game and negated quite a few runs including a few game winners.

And they wonder why umpire's eyes get real big when we see something like that.