Preventive Umpiring?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally posted by WestMichiganBlue
FED Varsity. I'm inside, taking a runner into 2B. She slides in safely; end up sitting kinda cross-legged on the base. Slowly she untangles and stands up, looking at me - but doesn't say anything. F6 is standing near-by with ball in glove.

Suddenly I hear partner call "TIME." About the same time F6 decides to throw ball to pitcher, and throws it all the way to the backstop. Coach says "don't go, he already called time." I turn and look at partner, who is standing a little up-line towards 3B, just staring at us.

Between innings he motioned me over and said "you gotta call time on that." "Why, she didn't ask for time!" "Doesn't matter" he said. "If she gets tagged out we'll have a hellava uproar. That's just good preventive umpiring." "Sounds like slow pitch to me" I responded as I headed towards 1B.

What say you?

WMB

If not requested, I wouldn't call time unless it was obvious that the player may have difficulties getting untangled. In many cases like this, you often have a coach requesting time or telling the runner to "call" time.

If she is going to get up on her own without a request, let it stay live.

Personally, though, I like the fact that in SP I can kill the ball and move to my position whether on the bases or the plate. It allows you to get a little breather, but then again, us SP umpires run around much more than you FP guys