Or Cricket...Maybe he was used to umpiring stick ball games?
Or Cricket...Maybe he was used to umpiring stick ball games?
Remember this from Rec days. In practice, it usually proved to be so much posturing. I did see an umpire once call a strike that actually bounced before reaching Home. He ignored my subsequent question, but didn't do it again.
Hmmm thats swatting a hornet's nest...yes book no book...
Game starts One Way ends another
What would you consider adjusting as necessary? Or was that just tagged to rec ball?
Myself would prefer consistency from the beginning to the end.
I am involved in all different levels of softball. Watching and teaching.RAD, I think this is one of those instances where you don't understand because of the level of softball you see.
High School leagues have so much diversity of talent levels in them that some pitchers could strike out every batter on another team and sometimes almost do. And batters facing extremely weak pitching have to utilize lots of patience and waiting for pitches that might be strikes. Or near being a strikeHow many games have you seen where a pitcher on one team walks 20 hitters for a varsity high school game?
It's brutal for everybody, especially when it's March and the temperature is hovering around 40 degrees. I am fine with an umpire opening the zone up when that happens. But he'd better do it for the pitcher on the other team, too. The idea isn't to punish the good pitcher and let the losing team back in it.
That is why there are specific rules (runs per inning guidelines, No Stealing Home Etc) for young ages. As players are older in high school, those rules are left behind.It's to speed things along.
Think there is a debate about whether or not expanding The Zone makes it better or harder. Because batters have to deal with the expanded Zone. Simply saying there is both an offense and defense to consider.I've had umpires tell me during these games that they're going to expand the zone. I know this isn't really what they should do, but I am fine with it. And I happily tell my hitters that they might get some tough pitches called strikes. I think it helps them adjust to different umpiring anyway. As we've all seen, sometimes we just have the umpires who will call a pitch 8 inches outside, so maybe use that game as an opportunity to figure out how to hit it.
Oh, I've seen this more than once. Had an umpire who called multiple bounced pitches (AND wouldn't let my players put their front foot anywhere in front of home plate despite what the batter's box actually is; we did not have lines) for the other team. For my pitcher, I resorted to just telling her to throw it down the middle. The catcher wasn't moving her mitt and he was calling a ball pretty much every time (I know it doesn't matter where the ball is caught, but we're talking right, right there). This was a high school game. One of maybe three losses we've ever had where I know it was because of the umpire. In the same game, R1 ran over F4 while she was fielding a ground ball. She did field the ball. Not only did he say there was no interference, he said there was no tag as they collided and fell down together.
There were several other issues during this game. We will play that team again next year, and I'm considering telling them we won't play them if he's working it.
I thought the same thing.The sternum seems like an odd reference point since it isn’t visible and one can only generalize where it is on a player barring a physical examination.
Makes it all sciency.Someone just wanted to use the word sternum
A HS game? I was talking about 10 Rec. In a HS game, I'm getting video and sending it to whoever assigns umpires, and he's never working on my field again.