Same play in softball games - HS game in Ohio and Ala.-Ky. game ............ Runner at 1st - less than 2 outs .......... batter swings at 3rd strike, and misses ball that bounces into catcher's glove .............. BATTER IS OUT but both batters run toward 1st ............. in HS game catcher hit the runner with the throw - in college game catcher threw into RF .......... both runners at 1st went to 3rd, and eventually scored the game winning run ......... both batters were eventually ruled out .......
Shouldn't the HP ump loudly announce and signal that the batter is out in that situation ? I umpired softball several years, and that is how our association handled that play .....
Did the umps in the games I described have the authority to put the base runner back at 1st, for creating an unsportsmanlike (confusing) situation ?
I do understand that the catchers needed to be smarter
Thank you,
Larry Friedel - irish7171@yahoo.com
Shouldn't the HP ump loudly announce and signal that the batter is out in that situation ? I umpired softball several years, and that is how our association handled that play .....
Did the umps in the games I described have the authority to put the base runner back at 1st, for creating an unsportsmanlike (confusing) situation ?
I do understand that the catchers needed to be smarter
Thank you,
Larry Friedel - irish7171@yahoo.com