Incorrect infield fly rule called

[SRW]

Originally Posted by Centerfield9

... play is blown dead. ...

The umpires used whistles? Irishmafia: Is this a new mechanic I'm not aware of?

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by SRW

The umpires used whistles? Irishmafia: Is this a new mechanic I'm not aware of?

Nah, just poor punctuation.

Should have been, "Play is blown."

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Nah, just poor punctuation.

Should have been, "Play is blown."

, dead.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by SRW

The umpires used whistles? Irishmafia: Is this a new mechanic I'm not aware of?

Yep. They are to be kept hanging on the backstop next to the kitchen timers and yellow flags

[CecilOne]

Originally Posted by SRW

The umpires used whistles? Irishmafia: Is this a new mechanic I'm not aware of?

Who said anything about whistles? It was windy!

[Tru_in_Blu]

Worked men's wreck league game last night w/ a junior partner on the plate. One out, runners on 1st & 2nd. We did flash IF signal to each other.

Batter hit a looping ball over shortstop, who turned toward the outfield to track it down. Partner called IF very quickly and when the ball landed well over the shortstop's head into the outfield, the offense was pretty steamed.

Lots of outcry and you gotta be kiddings. I thought maybe the coach would come out to talk to PU and perhaps we'd end up getting together to talk about it. As I'm thinking about what I'd do, I thought putting the batter on 1st and advancing each runner 1 base would be the appropriate correction.

But the coach never came out and the game continued from there. Partner and I talked a couple of innings after that, but I didn't bring up Rule 10. Given how it played out, I thought I'd let this one sit in his craw a while. He knew he messed it up, so I left it at that.

The team that the call went against mounted a rally in the top of the 7th and ultimately came up 1 run short. Hindsight being 20-20, they may have had a big inning killed in that earlier inning.

[sbatten]

Thanks for this discussion. It's helpful to illustrate how we as umpires can take things into consideration after making a correctable mistake.

Scott