Pitcher covers rubber with dirt.

Stu Clary · #1 (**permalink**) Sun Aug 23, 2009, 04:39pm

Thank you.

umpirebob71 · #2 (**permalink**) Sun Aug 23, 2009, 09:56pm

I see no good reason for the pitcher to deliberately cover the pitching plate with dirt. I would have done the same thing.

AtlUmpSteve · #3 (**permalink**) Sun Aug 23, 2009, 10:18pm

I have a different response to the pitcher.

"Pitch, you have to be in contact with the pitcher's plate to throw a legal pitch. If you are, there would be no reason to hide it. You hide it, I call every pitch illegal until I see you in contact, because hiding it only tells me you are not in contact."

IRISHMAFIA · #4 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 24, 2009, 06:44am

Quote:

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve

I have a different response to the pitcher.

"Pitch, you have to be in contact with the pitcher's plate to throw a legal pitch. If you are, there would be no reason to hide it. You hide it, I call every pitch illegal until I see you in contact, because hiding it only tells me you are not in contact."

Unless, of course, it is a Senior's game.

#5 (**permalink**) Mon Aug 24, 2009, 07:31am

Quote:

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Unless, of course, it is a Senior's game.

Or an Utrip game.

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