Is it my duty as a fellow umpire?

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Fri May 07, 2010, 09:13pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Quite a few, including instructors at high levels, mock softball and any umpire that rules a ball dead, yet the baseball rules routinely refer to a ball being "alive". Hmmmm.......we cannot have a dead ball, but they can have one that is alive.

It's not the status of the ball, it is the use of the verbal "dead ball" that is considered improper. OBR instructs in their rules to kill the ball by yelling "Time".

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