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quote:Originally posted by NW Knights07:
High school game today, RF catches the ball but stumbles over the hill in deep right. He hangs on to the ball, but for the purpose of this question, lets say he drops it. Runner seeing no signal whatsoever from either umpire goes into the dugout and at that moment an out is finally ruled.
So in this situation, is am umpire REQUIRED to signal no catch?
quote:Originally posted by NW Knights07:
High school game today, RF catches the ball but stumbles over the hill in deep right. He hangs on to the ball, but for the purpose of this question, lets say he drops it. Runner seeing no signal whatsoever from either umpire goes into the dugout and at that moment an out is finally ruled.
So in this situation, is am umpire REQUIRED to signal no catch?
quote:Originally posted by dash_riprock:
You need to clarify your hypothetical situation. You have a fielder dropping the ball, the runner going into the dugout, and then the umpire ruling a catch.
quote:Originally posted by NW Knights07:quote:Originally posted by dash_riprock:
You need to clarify your hypothetical situation. You have a fielder dropping the ball, the runner going into the dugout, and then the umpire ruling a catch.
Sorry for not being completely clear on this, the umpire ruled the baserunner out for abondonment. Neither umpire signaled a catch, merely that the runner was out because he entered the dugout.
I know this COULD have been avoided, but SHOULD it have been avoided with a no catch signal. As I interperate this, the umpires no call whatsoever aided the defense, and put the offense down a baserunner.
