cabbagedad posted:Stats4Gnats posted:... Do you realize 1% of the pitches in a ML game is about 25. You talk as though its only one or two pitches. I keep in mind that every pitch changes what takes place after it.
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Huh?
I get that. Hitter has an 0-1 count, watches a pitch well out of the zone get called a strike. His chance of reaching base with an 0-2 count are much less than with 1-1 count.
Anyway, drifting along on the topic of HS umpiring, here's a situation I'd be interested in comments on, though to be honest I don't know all of the circumstances to it's somewhat rhetorical.
A player in our league was disqualified for play during the final 3 weeks of his senior season because he was ejected from a game for a second time this season, which is apparently a league rule. So question #1 is -- is that a good rule? #2 has to due with causes for ejections. I witnessed the player's first ejection and it was well-deserved. Catcher tagged him hard on a possible dropped 3rd strike. He did not like it, and then he called the catcher an effing f****t after he struck out. I did not witness his second ejection, but I heard that it was done by an ump who is known to tell both coaches in the plate meeting that any time he hears a player utter the F word that is cause for ejection. Apparently he did with this kid, but I don't know the specifics. If he cursed an opponent again, fine. But if he said the magic word to himself after missing a play or something like that, it seems like a bit much. This kid is clearly no choirboy but it's a shame to lose his last few weeks of his final season of baseball due a word.