Stupid Jim
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Last night at a high school game I witnessed this- the umpire who is one of those cool guys who will not say a word, if its a ball he just looks away and hits his clicker and if its a strike he just raises his arm, if there was a play he would make a signal nothing was said.
So there are runners on 2nd & 3rd one out. Batter hits a hot grounder down third base line 3rd baseman boots the ball right over the top of the base as she is doing this everyone hears "foul ball" come from the home plate area. So the third baseman retrieves the ball and the base runners trot back to there bases, the 3rd baseman throws back to the pitcher and the umpire is standing there with his arm half raised pointing to the in field. Batter goes behind the batters bot to get her bat, and is called out for being out of the base path.
Here it was the head coach of the defensive team who was standing in the doorway of the dug out, behind the umpire who screamed 'FOUL BALL". Everyone on the field heard this and treated this as a foul ball thinking that it came from the umpire.
The real shame of it is this happened in the bottom of the seventh one out, and down 6 to 3, this pretty much killed the rally. After the game one of the parents went to the ump and asked if that should be obstruction, same thing as a 3rd base coach calling for the ball and making a player miss the ball. I also heard of the bench get called for screaming out stuff that made players back away from the play.
Oh, by the way we finally heard the ump speak when he told the parent to shut up and take a class because they were wrong.
So there are runners on 2nd & 3rd one out. Batter hits a hot grounder down third base line 3rd baseman boots the ball right over the top of the base as she is doing this everyone hears "foul ball" come from the home plate area. So the third baseman retrieves the ball and the base runners trot back to there bases, the 3rd baseman throws back to the pitcher and the umpire is standing there with his arm half raised pointing to the in field. Batter goes behind the batters bot to get her bat, and is called out for being out of the base path.
Here it was the head coach of the defensive team who was standing in the doorway of the dug out, behind the umpire who screamed 'FOUL BALL". Everyone on the field heard this and treated this as a foul ball thinking that it came from the umpire.
The real shame of it is this happened in the bottom of the seventh one out, and down 6 to 3, this pretty much killed the rally. After the game one of the parents went to the ump and asked if that should be obstruction, same thing as a 3rd base coach calling for the ball and making a player miss the ball. I also heard of the bench get called for screaming out stuff that made players back away from the play.
Oh, by the way we finally heard the ump speak when he told the parent to shut up and take a class because they were wrong.