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This was in a JV game yesterday.
1st inning ? Baserunner coming home way ahead of the throw runs through homeplate without contacting catcher, throw comes when she is past plate, umpire warns coach and player that on any play even remotely close they have to slide or he will toss them from the game. That's not the rule, there is no slide rule and there is no reason to force a player to slide at home when the ball is not yet there and no reason to give a warning when there was no contact because if it happens 10 more times there is still nothing to call. Claims he just got new training on this rule. IS that really the training that is being given?
2nd inning ? Baserunner in a run down between third and home, is almost stopped at end of rundown, has no momentum to slide and when she trys to half slide into home, catcher steps to her and tags her, there is contact, but not even close to a ?crash? or interference. Umpire does not call interference, but calls runner out and ejects runner from the game. Really? so the standard is contact? not collision? I know in ASA they use the word "crash" not sure of the NFHS wording. I would not call this a crash. Great flourish on the ejection though, started low finished high and held the Yerrr nice and long on the "Yerrrrrr out of here"
3rd inning - Catcher trys to throw stealing runner (from 2B to 3B) out at third base, throw is off and hit?s runner in foot sliding and goes out of play. Umpire says runner has to stay at third. ?What? There are only two possible calls there, either you determine she intentionally kicked the ball out of play and she?s out for interference, or it?s a thrown ball going out of play and the runner gets two bases from the last base achieved at the point of the release of the throw and that would be home, not third.
As a capper this guy would signal safe on close plays and say "Aaarrrgh" which I am assuming means safe, but sounds a lot more like out and put several runners in jeopardy when they thought they had been called out when they were actually called safe. We won by run rule, so this isn't sour grapes, just a little bemused
I did pass this on to our AD to maybe get the word to this guys assignor that they need to do some retraining.
1st inning ? Baserunner coming home way ahead of the throw runs through homeplate without contacting catcher, throw comes when she is past plate, umpire warns coach and player that on any play even remotely close they have to slide or he will toss them from the game. That's not the rule, there is no slide rule and there is no reason to force a player to slide at home when the ball is not yet there and no reason to give a warning when there was no contact because if it happens 10 more times there is still nothing to call. Claims he just got new training on this rule. IS that really the training that is being given?
2nd inning ? Baserunner in a run down between third and home, is almost stopped at end of rundown, has no momentum to slide and when she trys to half slide into home, catcher steps to her and tags her, there is contact, but not even close to a ?crash? or interference. Umpire does not call interference, but calls runner out and ejects runner from the game. Really? so the standard is contact? not collision? I know in ASA they use the word "crash" not sure of the NFHS wording. I would not call this a crash. Great flourish on the ejection though, started low finished high and held the Yerrr nice and long on the "Yerrrrrr out of here"
3rd inning - Catcher trys to throw stealing runner (from 2B to 3B) out at third base, throw is off and hit?s runner in foot sliding and goes out of play. Umpire says runner has to stay at third. ?What? There are only two possible calls there, either you determine she intentionally kicked the ball out of play and she?s out for interference, or it?s a thrown ball going out of play and the runner gets two bases from the last base achieved at the point of the release of the throw and that would be home, not third.
As a capper this guy would signal safe on close plays and say "Aaarrrgh" which I am assuming means safe, but sounds a lot more like out and put several runners in jeopardy when they thought they had been called out when they were actually called safe. We won by run rule, so this isn't sour grapes, just a little bemused
I did pass this on to our AD to maybe get the word to this guys assignor that they need to do some retraining.
