my father would like to know for his baseball team (they have discussions) any interesting situations that an umpire might face. nothing too difficult. if you have one please include the correct ruling. thank you much
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Would love to help you BB, can you tell us what level of baseball this is?...Age??. LL, PONY...HS ?.....it would be most helpful in determining what types of situations and rules would be most helpful...
Bubble,
Do you mean odd scenarios and rules trivia, per se?
Do you mean odd scenarios and rules trivia, per se?
oh, sorry. they are seventh graders. they want odd scenarios and some rule stuff. the whole point is to help the players see how difficult an umpire's job really is. sorry for not being clear before, anything is really appreciated. an example would be my post under the title "Home Run" on ask the umpire. thats why i asked that question, for my father's team.
please, we really need these. umpires, myself indcluded, groan about how players treat them and how parents dont know the rules and then yell, this is one way that we can allieviate this.
OK, we'll start with an old one.
Ask the kids to describe a play where three outs occured without anyone on defense touching the ball.
Answer:
No outs, runners on first and second, batter hits fly ball to infield.
"Infield Fly" is called; batter is out. (1 out)
Runner from first base thinks there are two outs and passes runner at second. (2 outs)
Runner at second is off the bag and is hit with the ball as it comes back down. (3 outs)
Is this the kind of stuff you're looking for?
Ask the kids to describe a play where three outs occured without anyone on defense touching the ball.
Answer:
No outs, runners on first and second, batter hits fly ball to infield.
"Infield Fly" is called; batter is out. (1 out)
Runner from first base thinks there are two outs and passes runner at second. (2 outs)
Runner at second is off the bag and is hit with the ball as it comes back down. (3 outs)
Is this the kind of stuff you're looking for?
yes, that is great. keep 'em comin
how can you have a ground rule double and the ball not reach the outfield? one example and have only seen this once in my life. little league game and the batter smashes one off the first base bag and it goes over the first base dugout for a ground rule double.
lol, wow. that is an interesting one to say the least
we teach the players not to bat "out of order". i once saw 4players(really 5) bat out of order in a little league tournament game. batter #5 had a pitch thrown to him so he became legal. the discussion at home plate must have gone on for 15 minutes. no, the umpires did not come up with the correct answer to the situation. as we all hopefully know, once batter #5 got a pitch thrown to him he became legal if he correctly followed 4 in the batting order. the umps called 2 batters out(i never understood how or why) and that made 3 outs.