Blown Call From This Fall

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by vcblue

18A National Qualifier. Winning team moves on to National, Losing continues on to battle for last 2 spots. Bottom of 7th, Home (offense) down by 1. Runners on 1st and 2nd, no outs.

High fly ball about 15 feet past 2nd. F8 had to move fast to make the catch. I am BU I button hooking in, both runners are holding half way. F8 has to dive, but I see a catch, but I don't hear my partner say out. Runners take off to the next base. Ball back to pitcher play over and I turn to look at my partner. He has his arm up signaling out. D coach yells to throw the ball to second, tag the runner and step on the base. 3 outs. We get together both have a the ball caught (wish he would have yelled out).

Walking off the field I hear, "you sucked when she was 10, and you are worst now that she is 18". Pretty sure it was directed at my partner because the loosing team was from his area.

Sucks that his/her base coaches didn't hold the runners to tag up.

[Gulf Coast Blue]

Extremely lucky that I have only had a few fields using the temporary fence. And these were only in tournaments that had 80+ teams. Maybe 2 - 3 games tops.

Will keep this in mind for the future.......

Joel

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Gulf Coast Blue

Extremely lucky that I have only had a few fields using the temporary fence. And these were only in tournaments that had 80+ teams. Maybe 2 - 3 games tops.

Will keep this in mind for the future.......

Joel

The temporary fences can lead to all sorts of issues. If you are in a 3 umpire game, you should have an umpire out there on fly balls near the fence, so it's not so bad. In a 2 umpire game, it becomes more of a challenge, especially for the BU to judge whether they should chase a long fly ball or not.

I had a game a few weeks ago, ASA rules, 3 umpire, I am 1U, runners on second and third, no outs. Long fly to center, I chase. F8 catches the ball as she is running into the fence. She falls to ground collapsing the temporary fence, I am making sure that she maintains control of the ball. She starts to get up by placing her throwing hand on the ground past the fence! I kill the play, rule a catch and carry and award each runner one base. I seriously doubt that it (catch and carry) would have been seen by a PU in a 2 umpire game.

[AtlUmpSteve]

Just thinking, you may have done the DEFENSE the favor in this case. Rare in fastpitch (more common in slowpitch), but there may have been two runs if the ball stayed live with the F8 on the ground after the catch.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve

Just thinking, you may have done the DEFENSE the favor in this case. Rare in fastpitch (more common in slowpitch), but there may have been two runs if the ball stayed live with the F8 on the ground after the catch.

Exactly why the offensive coach didn't like the call.....but it was the correct call and I made it when I saw it.

I was also told after the game that neither runner tagged up as they thought the ball was not going to be caught.....but the defense did not appeal either one.

[Rich Ives]

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Sucks that his/her base coaches didn't hold the runners to tag up.

Runners took off? Defense didn't start a play until after the ball went to the pitcher and then they noticed the out call? Fans were livid?

Sounds to me like the only person that thought it was a catch was the PU.