Blown Call From This Fall

[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.