- Aug 5, 2012
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One of the teams in our organization played a game the other night and had bases loaded. The pitcher hit her leg with the pitch and the ball dropped to her right and rolled toward the foul line. The runner on third took off and crossed the plate while the other team watched the ball roll just short of the foul line.
The ump called it a dead ball and returned the runner to third and didn't call it a ball. When the coach asked about it, he said it would have been a different story had the ball rolled foul. Then it would have been a ball but the runner still couldn't have scored. Our coach walked away in a big what. Of course when he told me the story, he prefaced it with "just when you think you've seen everything..."
The ump got it wrong, didn't he?
The ump called it a dead ball and returned the runner to third and didn't call it a ball. When the coach asked about it, he said it would have been a different story had the ball rolled foul. Then it would have been a ball but the runner still couldn't have scored. Our coach walked away in a big what. Of course when he told me the story, he prefaced it with "just when you think you've seen everything..."
The ump got it wrong, didn't he?