Crazy Call?? | High School Baseball Web

06Dad10+ posts

I posted this on the umpire forum, but I thought it might be of interest to others.

Please tell me if the following situation was handled correctly by the umpires.

The situation:

State AAU 16U Championship game. There are two umpires. The team at bat has runners at first and second with one out.

The batter hits a high fly to relatively shallow left field. The fielder gets to the ball and makes a diving play on the ball. The runners do not advance beyond a short lead. The field umpire signals that the catch was made.

The left fielder throws the ball to the third baseman who is standing on the bag. Then, the home plate umpire throws up his hands and says that the ball was trapped. The third baseman throws the ball to second for the force out and a double play.

The home plate umpire then rules that the ball was dead and all runners are safe. He allowed the runner at second to advance to third, the runner at first to advance to second and the batter is safe at first. One out, bases juiced.

What do you think? Crazy?

11/15/046:49 PM

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windmill100+ posts

I remember something similar years ago [1980?? Phils - Astros] in the MLB playoffs. Umps made conflicting calls, and ended up placing runners where they thought they should be...something about the ump's call placing the runners in jeopardy. No matter what, you end up wiith unhappy people. If that ball was indeed trapped, seems to me they ended up doing the right thing.

11/15/047:32 PM

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