Reply to "Ump says "stay in the box""

coach270910,000+ posts

It's pretty much a speed up rule that is umpires discretion. Also depends a lot on rules set too. Several years ago at the HS level they made a rule you had to leave one foot in the box at all times (unless an inside pitch caused you to back out or swing / miss) or it's an automatic strike. It was pretty ridiculous and the rule was changed to where the ump can enforce this rule if there is someone who takes longer than normal time to get back in the box of if the coach has to touch all of his body 6 times in order to give a sign when his team is down 8 runs in the 7th with nobody on.

You can post this in the ask an ump forum and get official answers from some great umpires in there.

6/17/145:46 PM

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