Falling Onto the Fielder...and Not Getting Up

[rwest]

Originally Posted by HugoTafurst

This can and will be debated ad naseum.
Bottom line it is the umpire on the field evaluating the situation and making his call.
I have no problem with the decision made on the field.

I, too, will go with the officials judgement on the field. All I am saying is we are talking about 10 year olds here! Common sense needs to prevail. Any time player safety is a concern we should, when reasonable to do so, err on the side of caution. This can be taken to an extreme and I'm not advocating that. But come on. There was contact and the player was lying on top of F4 in a 10U REC GAME! The official said he didn't think there was much to the contact. Maybe to an adult it wasn't much, but that same contact to a 10U could be more severe.

All I am saying is take the age of the kids into account. Would you call time if this same thing happened in a pee-wee game or T-Ball?

[Manny A]

Originally Posted by rwest

All I am saying is take the age of the kids into account. Would you call time if this same thing happened in a pee-wee game or T-Ball?

Well, I personally wouldn't umpire a T-Ball game. Heaven help those leagues that feel they need umpires for their T-Ball programs!

I fully understand my role out there when it comes to player injuries during a live ball. And I judged that there was nothing wrong with F4 which, as it turned out, was correct.

Also, while this was a rec league game, the two teams involved are very competitive that I've seen quite often in weekend ASA tournaments. They use this league as tune-ups for their tournament participation. The game, in toto, was better played than many high school JV games I've umpired.

But that's really not the reason why I posted this. I wanted to get an answer purely from a rules' perspective, and I got that.