Worst Calls Ever?

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I totally retyped my answer because the first time I read your post I didn't notice you said he called it FOUL. Oh, brother....

 

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They sure can come up with some explainations sometimes.

I had a team yesterday of mens and I walked out on the field and said the next person who cusses is out of here.

Then the second baseman says, " That BS..blah, blah, blah " and I threw him. His first explination was he was talking to his own player and not me...LOL

So Obviously he wasn't.. but ...he couldn't get the idea out of his head that it was OK to cuss at his player

Gotta love softball

 

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The worst
2 years ago in Monroe Ohio(swo).
Umpire said we could not advance on a passed ball,or advance the batter/runner to second base on a walk because every time the catcher received the ball he called time.
He did not know the look back rule , and had no idea what the circle around pitchers mound was for.
I was restricted to the dugout then later removed from the park ;&
Our team still managed to win.

 

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Here's one for ya. Runner on first, batter hits ball into left field, left fielder throws ball in to 3rd. Runner that was on first rounds second. Throw from third to second runner easily gets back to base standing and is called safe. Runner's momentum takes her foot off the bag for just a split second and then the foot comes back down on bag. There was no attempt to tag our runner, but second baseman had foot on bag and ball in glove. Ump screams, "No! She pulled her foot! Runner is out!" We questioned the call and he didn't want to talk about it he just repeated, runner pulled her foot she's out!

 

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I can only scratch my head and wonder..."Why?".

 

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point on the stepping on the plate thing was that what is the chance that this actually happened since none of us have seen it done or called in years.

 

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point on the stepping on the plate thing was that what is the chance that this actually happened since none of us have seen it done or called in years.

I have never seen it called.

But I have seen multiple girls get called out for touching a bunted ball in play. Those slapper types busting a move. Always seems to be happen at the wrong time.

 

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I have called it a couple times myself.

As an umpire, it is habit to watch the ball come in from pitcher, ball hit bat, look down at plate area to see if bunted ball hits batter ... to which you are observing if foot is on the plate in that same look.

Biggest thing I wish TD would do.. is put in a batter's box. Believe me, as a TD I KNOW it is a hassle... but these slap hitters are getting to the point of being out of the box forward when doing so.

But, they can get by with it if there is no batter's box and coaches are telling them so.

I seen some at winter ball events that was just too much in my mind.

 

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I see the call of someone stepping on the plate about once a year, and someone stepping out of the box about once a year as well (just happened in DD's college game this weekend). It certainly happens a lot more often, but I recognize they both have to be difficult for the umpire to catch.

 

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I think out of the two .. the slapper is the easiest to catch in my opinion ... IF there is a box .

 

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Been coaching for 12 years and have never, not even when I try to get it called, have I ever seen a batter called out for stepping on the plate while batting or bunting. In our recent High School game vs. Watterson, saw it called 3 times!

Isn't that the correct call?

The plate is in fair territory. Just like a slapper being out of the box when contact is made...........or have I just proven I do not know the rules?;&

They are 2 separate rules:
- Entire foot outside the box while ball contacts bat.
- Any part of foot touching home plate while ball contacts bat. This can happen without the foot being entirely outside the box.

We were surprised 2 weeks ago when the other team's slapper got called for being outside the box twice in a game. Their coach questioned where she stepped the second time it happened and the umpire motioned in front of the plate.

 

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My favorite was a JV High School game. Extra innings lead off batter reaches. trying to bunt her over. With 2 strikes coach leaves the bunt on. Girl gets the bunt down FAIR. Ump calls her out for bunting with 2 strikes.

 

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@Lionsfastpitch:

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:

 

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NSA World Series 12u in Salem, VA. 2002

Allow me to set this up. Pre-game meeting at the plate with umpires. One umpire from the state up north and one umpire from Tennessee. In the 1st inning our girl hits one in the gap and slides into 3rd with a triple. Both the base umpire and plate umpire are at 3rd to make the call. Both call safe but then get into a heated arguement with each other about who's call it is.

Later in the game we are trailing by two, have our three hole hitter up with runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. In Salem some of the fields have that dome like backstop that comes out over the catcher and hitter. Our hitter fouls it off and up into the overhanging backstop, clangs (noise) off the backstop into foul territory in front of our dugout into the 1st baseman's glove who was leisurely just retreiving the foul ball. The home plate umpire says out. We advise the ump that the ball was off the backstop and he says he did not see it or hear it. Appeal to the base umpire and he says he did not see it or hear it. Other team is laughing and says nothing. That is my one and only time getting tossed. To this day when a ball goes off a backstop and flies into a fielder's glove I can be heard saying "That's an out in Virginia".

 

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We had a bad one this week.

1B about 2 feet off the line gets a pop up right to her, doesn't even have to move her feet to get under it. Mit goes up in the air and apparently her eyes did not. The ball hit her mitt and bounced right over the line into fouls territory.

Umpire call, while he is standing looking at her still not moving her feet , foul ball.

 

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Batter in the front of the box. The third baseman was playing in front of the bag by 8'. Hits a ball that strikes the ground fair and then bounces into the third baseman's glove 3' beyond into foul territory. The umpire doesn't call anything so the third baseman tosses the ball to first and the batter/runner is call out.

The umpire stated that the ball established itself fair so it was fair until it hits the ground.......... This was a varsity section game with 'qualified' umpires, the field umpire backed up the plate umpire during the rather heated discussion. The discussion was rather amusing in that both coaches were arguing that it was a foul ball.

 

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Batter in the front of the box. The third baseman was playing in front of the bag by 8'. Hits a ball that strikes the ground fair and then bounces into the third baseman's glove 3' beyond into foul territory. The umpire doesn't call anything so the third baseman tosses the ball to first and the batter/runner is call out.

The umpire stated that the ball established itself fair so it was fair until it hits the ground.......... This was a varsity section game with 'qualified' umpires, the field umpire backed up the plate umpire during the rather heated discussion. The discussion was rather amusing in that both coaches were arguing that it was a foul ball.

I would call that a fair ball as well. As long as it has hit in fair territory and not yet hit in foul territory it is a fair ball. The umpire cannot make the assumption that it is going to land in foul territory once it has hit fair. Now if it was a fly ball it would have been foul as it had not been established as a fair batted ball.

 

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Sorry, but...ummm...no.

It depends on where the ball is first touched in relation to the foul line. As described, this would clearly be a foul ball.

 

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Phew . . thanks Bretman. For a minute there, I thought I was really losing whatever grasp I have of the rules.

 

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Sorry, but...ummm...no.

It depends on where the ball is first touched in relation to the foul line. As described, this would clearly be a foul ball.

Okay, I need to go back to reading class. LoL It really helps if you don't skip the important words.

I stand corrected.