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Old Mon May 23, 2011, 08:46am
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Like others, I haven't ever done USSSA. But I think the biggest and most telling points in the OP have been ignored.

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I here PU call time when the ball had reached back into the infield.
Does any umpire ever call time after a foul ball is returned to the infield?? PU obviously ruled a fair ball.

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I here PU call time when the ball had reached back into the infield.
Dead ball!! Time was called. No "abandonment", or any other rule about leaving a base. No organization can possibly have a rule allowing any such ruling during dead ball play. Ever.

Just handled wrong by the umpires on the field. The OP doesn't say (or even remotely suggest) the next batter was in the box and umpire made the ball live. No rules support possible.
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Old Tue May 24, 2011, 08:43am
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Like others, I haven't ever done USSSA. But I think the biggest and most telling points in the OP have been ignored.

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Does any umpire ever call time after a foul ball is returned to the infield??
Maybe. Is this coed and playing with different balls for men and women? If that's the case, then time would be called to switch balls.
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Old Tue May 24, 2011, 09:30am
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Maybe. Is this coed and playing with different balls for men and women? If that's the case, then time would be called to switch balls.
Really?

Really?

A) So you're saying you might call time during a dead ball for this? Why - the ball's already dead.

B) More importantly - why are you changing batters after a foul ball?
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Old Wed May 25, 2011, 07:03pm
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Sorry I have not been around to respond to some of this, family emergency.

This was a Men's game.
No next batter ever made it to the box, because our team began to argue the call.
I was coaching at 3rd on this play. The 1B coach was the one who told me that he called it foul.

I agree with the reasoning that there is no point to call time if it is a foul ball. It was our fault for leaving the bases, but when you see runners going back to bases they previously occupied, is there not a sense of "oh crap, what is happening?"

Thanks for the help!
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Old Thu May 26, 2011, 03:07am
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so, base ump calls a runner out AFTER he allegedly calls a "foul ball" from the B position or button hooked? or calls runner out AFTER PU calls time? I think your 1B coach is smoking crack or smoking up your crack, or both.

the next time you see that 1B coach, you should punch him in the nose...church league or not.

I don't do u-trip, but umps got it right. R1 out on the force at second.

sorry to hear about your family emergency.


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Sorry I have not been around to respond to some of this, family emergency.

This was a Men's game.
No next batter ever made it to the box, because our team began to argue the call.
I was coaching at 3rd on this play. The 1B coach was the one who told me that he called it foul.

I agree with the reasoning that there is no point to call time if it is a foul ball. It was our fault for leaving the bases, but when you see runners going back to bases they previously occupied, is there not a sense of "oh crap, what is happening?"

Thanks for the help!
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Old Thu May 26, 2011, 07:47am
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More importantly - why are you changing batters after a foul ball?
Entirely possible in slow pitch (third strike foul).
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