Ever sen an umpire punish a kid?

[mike_dyer]

I thought I had seen it all from the boys in blue.

A kid lays down a bunt and clearly runs into the ball out of the box. It ended up rolling foul. A kid playing D says "The ball hit her out of the box....", the umpire gave her the stink eye, and the at bat continued.

After that half of the inning was complete he stops the kid on her way off the field and says "You don't tell me that. That is a 'protest call', you tell your coach and your coach protests it, then I can make that call." The kid says "...ok..." and continues to the dug out but the guy keeps going with it. "Yep, 'protest call.' Don't tell me that again. Blah blah blah. Yadda yadda yadda."

A couple of batters into the next half inning that kid steps up to bat. Lays down a bunt that goes straight down into the dirt and stops dead inside of the box and is laying there. Same umpire who won't STFU about a "protest call" says "Ball hit the batter out of the box, batter is out!"

She goes back to get her bat, the ball is still laying dead in the box, girl who was on deck says "The ball is still inside of the box...." Guy says "No it's not..."



The next batter smokes a ball to the fence. Good thing too. I'm sure he would have let her know, without hesitation, who was in charge and who everyone there had came to see.

 

[snoman76]

First let me say that the umpire was in the right to let the girl know that SHE does not try to correct the umpire it's the coaches job (or tell the coach instead of the girl and let him relay it to her) but to hold it against her when she comes to bat is ridiculous! Too many umpires out there hold grudges against players and coaches and make blatantly bad calls against them to prove a point. The only point they prove is that they shouldn't be an umpire if they can't let those things go.

I was watching a heated game between 2 very good teams from just off to the side of the backstop when the umpire makes a "ball" call before the pitcher made the pitch because she took too long. Fair enough but Immediately after the call he turns and looks at THE FANS sitting on the offensive side and said with a smile "how do you like that call?"

 

[mike_dyer]

Correct. She shouldn't have said anything. I see scores of kids saying out loud things they see in games, even if they don't actually see them because they didn't happen. She wasn't yelling or acting like an idiot about it. She just said what she saw. And she wasn't the only one who said it.

The coach wasn't going to say anything. The game was an absolute blow out and that would have looked like he was piling on even more than it already did.

"Protest call" though?

1. That is not a "protest call." Not touching a bag is an example of a protest call.

2. Who "protested" when the ball hit the kid's foot inside of the box??

 

[mike_dyer]

By the way, the umpire continued to talk about it out loud for the remainder of the game. He stopped the coach and the kid after the teams shook hands and kept talking about it.

 

[FastBat]

The player shouldn't have spoken to the ump like that. But, the ump doing that wasn't professional or nice. Kids will be kids.

 

[Justamom]

There's an ump that had the catchers do push ups when she got hit by the ball. Not sure if she did it all the time or just with teams she 'knew'.