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Ok, I do not understand everything about this game, but there are some things I thought I did.
Sidenote; DD was in a frosh tourney in SWO near Cincy this weekend. For those of you who were there and know where I am talking about, this place has an awesome facility, and at a school no less. Everyone there was pushing rakes with the rain...fantastic effort by sponsoring team!
On to my issue...tight game, two best teams late Saturday our #4 batter up. She fouls a ball off that goes behind her, umpire declares she is out. I am coaching first and ask why she was out when she clearly swung away. He said she stepped up to far out of the batters box. With all of the raking and everything that had been going on, the box was totally gone, there was no line, no could he show me where the line should have been, only that she had stepped out of the box and was out.
I became furious (but did not raise my voice) and I asked him to immediately have a line drawn so I could work with our batter on not to step out of the box. He told me I had to take it up with the tournament director. I said,"no, I am taking it up with you, sir, I want a line drawn." He said no, and went back to my first base box and we played the rest of the game. Fortunately we rallied late, and won the tourney.
Questions:
Was I wrong to demand a box be drawn if we were going to use this?
Is the rule that her whole foot has to be out during contact?
Sidenote; DD was in a frosh tourney in SWO near Cincy this weekend. For those of you who were there and know where I am talking about, this place has an awesome facility, and at a school no less. Everyone there was pushing rakes with the rain...fantastic effort by sponsoring team!
On to my issue...tight game, two best teams late Saturday our #4 batter up. She fouls a ball off that goes behind her, umpire declares she is out. I am coaching first and ask why she was out when she clearly swung away. He said she stepped up to far out of the batters box. With all of the raking and everything that had been going on, the box was totally gone, there was no line, no could he show me where the line should have been, only that she had stepped out of the box and was out.
I became furious (but did not raise my voice) and I asked him to immediately have a line drawn so I could work with our batter on not to step out of the box. He told me I had to take it up with the tournament director. I said,"no, I am taking it up with you, sir, I want a line drawn." He said no, and went back to my first base box and we played the rest of the game. Fortunately we rallied late, and won the tourney.
Questions:
Was I wrong to demand a box be drawn if we were going to use this?
Is the rule that her whole foot has to be out during contact?