New rules learned in fall ball

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Did someone help you up after you fainted?

Better question is, did you enforce it as chalked?

[SRW]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Better question is, did you enforce it as chalked?

I wasn't sure what to do with it, since no one has ever seen the elusive catcher's box. So I called for coaches and captains, and had a fun moment with the girls on each side as I had them scuff out the chalk with their cleats.

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Better question is, did you enforce it as chalked?

Not the catchers' box, just some extraneous lines.

[OCASA]

This just happened tonight. I am the League Guru not the ump. 14U and a 200ft field. Had a girl cream the ball down third base line with base loaded. The ball went air born and kept going up. It sliced to the left passing into foul territory before missing the pole by inches.

PU: FOUL BALL!!
Coach: WHAT?!?!? You gotta be kidding me, you can't rob a girl of a hit like that!!!
PU: Sorry coach it went foul.
Coach: Ahhh, your full of it, that was an awesome hit and your robbing her.

So apparently if the ball clears the higher portion of the pole as it goes over the fence, it is always considered fair.

New one on me.

Speaking of foul/fair ball, the one question I get every time I call a ball close to the line foul when the person is still in fair territory but touching the ball when its in foul territory: "But blue, his feet were in fair territory...doesn't that make the ball fair?" *sigh*

[KJUmp]

Originally Posted by OCASA

This just happened tonight. I am the League Guru not the ump. 14U and a 200ft field. Had a girl cream the ball down third base line with base loaded. The ball went air born and kept going up. It sliced to the left passing into foul territory before missing the pole by inches.

PU: FOUL BALL!!
Coach: WHAT?!?!? You gotta be kidding me, you can't rob a girl of a hit like that!!!
PU: Sorry coach it went foul.
Coach: Ahhh, your full of it, that was an awesome hit and your robbing her.

So apparently if the ball clears the higher portion of the pole as it goes over the fence, it is always considered fair.

New one on me.

At that point...I just tossed him...end of the "fair/foul,you can't rob her" discussion.

[3afan]

I learned 2 things in an ASA 12U this weekend in North Texas:

1 - on a walk all forced runners cannot deviate more the 3' from a direct line to the base they are entitled to else they should be called out for "running out of the baseline"

2 - after a pitch has been thrown the umpire cannot correct the count on the batter, the last count "announced" must stand

I kid you not!

Originally Posted by 3afan

I learned 2 things in an ASA 12U this weekend in North Texas:

1 - on a walk all forced runners cannot deviate more the 3' from a direct line to the base they are entitled to else they should be called out for "running out of the baseline"

2 - after a pitch has been thrown the umpire cannot correct the count on the batter, the last count "announced" must stand

I kid you not!

Wow, sounds like you just left the twilight zone. #1 obviously was uttered by a very anal retentative coach. #2 must have been uttered by some ucking fidiot of a coach who likes to stir things up. Of course, that all could have been the same coach.

[Tru_in_Blu]

Originally Posted by Ref Ump Welsch

Wow, sounds like you just left the twilight zone. #1 obviously was uttered by a very anal retentative coach. #2 must have been uttered by some ucking fidiot of a coach who likes to stir things up. Of course, that all could have been the same coach.

Brent, when you're engaged in a correctative task, would you flag "preventative" as unsuititable?

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by 3afan

I learned 2 things in an ASA 12U this weekend in North Texas:

1 - on a walk all forced runners cannot deviate more the 3' from a direct line to the base they are entitled to else they should be called out for "running out of the baseline"

2 - after a pitch has been thrown the umpire cannot correct the count on the batter, the last count "announced" must stand

I kid you not!

Yeah...I would believe that for a 12U coach. They have been around just long enough to pick up enough information to be dangerous to themselves!

[celebur]

Originally Posted by 3afan

2 - after a pitch has been thrown the umpire cannot correct the count on the batter, the last count "announced" must stand

I hope you obliged that coach. . .by announcing the count as 0-2 after the first pitch to each batter.

[3afan]

Originally Posted by celebur

I hope you obliged that coach. . .by announcing the count as 0-2 after the first pitch to each batter.

didnt think of that!