Make this call - and support it!

[Andy]

Originally posted by Dakota
Does the "neighborhood play" have any traditional use in softball? This is a practical unwritten adjustment to the rules that high school age and up baseball uses to allow fielders to get the out while staying out of the way of the runners. I don't recall it ever being discussed on a softball rules board, so my assumption is that it is not an accepted practice in softball. Maybe metal cleats has something to do with it.

What about it?

Well, this thread has been completly hijacked!

Tom, I have heard that the NCAA and the JC level expects the "neighborhood" call to be made, especially at second base on a double play attempt. I don't work either level, just heard this from talking to some local guys that do. Maybe the Kellerumps or Del-Blue can comment.