Illegal Pitch

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Plate Man

I am in Austin watching the umpires work one of the state games. Montgomery game, because i heard about her being legal or illegal. The U3 is calling illegal, but the problem is that the U1 is not watching the same game. When a runner gets on base and he goes behind second base illegal pitches stop. Which brings me to my point about illegal pitch, i would like some input back on this.

Is it because some umpires are affraid to call them?

They don't know what to look for: in that case they shouldn't be there.. ,

Same team "Montogmery" at Port Author vs LCM, The Houston crew calling illegal pitches, then i heard they were replaced by a San Antinio crew because of the illegal pitches that were called. So i went and watched the crew low and behold, no illegal pitches were called either day. Once again i was there she was illegal. "Affraid to call them"

Now they go to state and illegal pitches are called again.

So why are we as umpires not on the same page?

There's a reason umpires are afraid to call them. It's the system.

Friend of mine was the umpire that called those IP's against LCM. The fact that they got pulled is crap. The fact that the girl crew from SA managed to see ZERO illegal pitches from the same pitcher is also crap. But the fact that they were pulled IS the reason the other crew (and others) won't call it.