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D dmangalo10+ posts
Hey all,
We played in a tournament last weekend, which got a little more exciting then normal with the ejection of our coach. It seemed fairly silly but wonder what you guys think.

Scenario(high school ball): The opposing batter steps to the plate with his sleeves rolled/tucked all the way up over his shoulder, our coach calls time and asks the umpire to have him roll them down apparently the umpire didn't like this and told our coach he wasn't the police and the kid was in uniform and one more word and he would throw him out, as he headed back to the dugout he muttered something and was ejected.

Question: If you were umping and a kid did this would you make him roll down his sleeves?

The MLB rules state in 1.11(c) that all sleeves shall be aprox. the same length, given that this is high school baseball would/should this matter.

Just wondering what other umpires would do, out of curiosity.

Thanks,
Dmangalo
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M Matt1310,000+ posts
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Originally posted by dmangalo:
Hey all,
We played in a tournament last weekend, which got a little more exciting then normal with the ejection of our coach. It seemed fairly silly but wonder what you guys think.

Scenario(high school ball): The opposing batter steps to the plate with his sleeves rolled/tucked all the way up over his shoulder, our coach calls time and asks the umpire to have him roll them down apparently the umpire didn't like this and told our coach he wasn't the police and the kid was in uniform and one more word and he would throw him out, as he headed back to the dugout he muttered something and was ejected.

Question: If you were umping and a kid did this would you make him roll down his sleeves?

The MLB rules state in 1.11(c) that all sleeves shall be aprox. the same length, given that this is high school baseball would/should this matter.

Just wondering what other umpires would do, out of curiosity.

Thanks,
Dmangalo


A similar rule does exist in FED.

That being said, why did your coach even bring this up? At a minimum, pragmatically speaking, he's less likely to be hit by a pitch.

The umpire did handle this wrong. "One more word" should never be stated (because it almost always leads to ejection,) nor should he have stated that he wasn't the uniform police. If he wasn't going to make the batter roll down his sleeves, there are far less agitating things to say to convey that point.
O otownmike100+ posts
There is a uniform code...in this scenario if asked by the coach I would have the player roll down his sleeves, and this is an area coaches need to police not umpires....having said that I won't let kids play with their shirt tail out nor would I allow them to play without a hat or turn it around backward so it appears from what is written the umpire was wrong....fyi personally I never use it as an umpire, and hated to hear as a coach the "one more word" utterance.

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