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Spinka Well

Earlene Islands

West Ranch

Austyn Route

Sanford Centers

Lola Valleys

Olson Expressway

Donnelly Junction

Arlene Turnpike

Lexie Mountains

Martine Manor

This helps. Working my first 3 man

Senger Points

Rath Squares

They are lucky that the benches did not clear .

Ritchie Underpass

Kraig Wells

Judson Mills

Yasmin Divide

Consuelo Vista

Gabriella Glen

In my opinion an appeal on R3 isn't needed. 3rd baseman tagged 3rd base which causes R3 to be out because he didn't tag up. No appeal is needed and R3 doesn't score. Inning is over and no appeal is needed for R2 either.

Dalton Cape

Myles Rapids

Jodie Track

So if the infield lets the ball drop can the base runners advance without tagging up? No need to tag up if it’s not caught or do they because it is an out due to the IFF? If caught the runners can advance if they tag up?

I love the idea of these videos. But this is the 2nd time I have strongly disagreed. How can you post a training video and suggest “I don’t like the way the rule is written, so let me teach you how to misuse the language of the rule to CYA while you ignore the rule.” ??!

I don't understand why the NFHS obstruction award is different between softball and baseball. It's never made sense to me. I'd think that softball should be more likely to have an automatic "1 base" award because the the distance between bases is 30 feet shorter, making the act of obstruction more detrimental to the softball runner.

Good video!But Caseplay #6&#8 is so confused me.Maybe #8 can be considered the umpire's judgment, but #6 is too demanding on the runner.NO calling IFF,NO calling intentional drop,but IFF and out.

This is a great addition to Umpire Classroom, I have been away a few months and the changes are great. I do have one question. Is there a way to watch this without the highlighting text on the right? I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. I am assuming these podcasts are designed to be audio only. Thanks for great work.

Why would it be a home run? Isn't that rule where a ball must travel over the fence "in flight"? In this case, it's carried several yards. So, not a catch due to not all of the pieces of the "catch" equation met. But why not a ground rule double?

Catcher and ump here. The reason it looks like a shitty slide is because he was blocking the plate. Not sure the exact rules with this league but its usually slide or avoid. Is this enough to give the call to the runner no he was out by a step but this did create a dangerous play at the plate and depending on the rules runner is safe and catcher is warned or ejected

Is that interference, a dead play? Batters out? Anybody know. I'm pretty sure it's the case

This was good. I got 100%!

In the pregame meeting with the coaches and the umpires what can the coach declare in the field of play? In the first example you had the line between foul and dead ball. One of the answers is where there coach declared the line dead ball territory. In any instance without answer B, the line is still foul territory. Can you clear this up?

Instead of a 2 base award, isn’t it a 1+1- the base they are going to plus one more?

Umpires judgement.....lol....if there is this many cases to try to explain an illegal pitch or balk, it is far to descritianary. Outs are easy, strikes are easy, balls are easy, homeruns....easy....but this stuff is stupid and I have seen so many cases of WTF?? Looked normal, in a close situation...boom...change brought about by the ump....not the players....no intent to deceive, no way to argue the point....umpire discretion...again, lol

If a pitcher is not set...why and how can he balk??? Seems it opens it up to the umpire to just balk...balk...balk.....every time a pitcher even has an itch....if he is not set, how can it even be an illegal pitch? He is not set, it is not a pitching move.

Umpiring HS and U16 this video provide clarity and great visual to typical game situations. Go Patrick!

No that is not a double play. The second baseman intentionally dropped the line drive. According to the rules, it is an immediate dead ball. The batter is out, and the runner returns to 1st base.

8:10 batter did not move. The catcher however moved into the batters swing

Baseball is so stupid. Multiple contradicting rules saying players need to move with other saying they cant move. And everything only rewards the defense. No balance to it at all

I would definitely call the runner out for failing to avoid interfering with the catcher. Yes, runner lowered shoulder but it could be a reflex reaction to a body unexpectedly coming straight at him. I don’t think there is any real evidence that he was intentionally using excessive force on the catcher or intending to injure, which is malicious contact. I would have called interference but I couldn’t eject the runner without it being obvious.

I don’t understand how to reconcile case play #2 and #5. In case # 2 the stance is illegal. In case #5 the batter starts legal but after the swing ends up in a position that is illegal in case #2 but somehow is legal in case #5. The feet positions are the same. The only difference is that in case #2, the batter’s initial stance is illegal. In case # 5 the stance is legal, but the stride puts the batter’s feet in the same position as in case #2. In my opinion, in the interest of streamlining and simplification, all rules concerning these types of situations should require the batter’s feet to stay in the box “pre” and “post” stride.

I have an issue with case 5. How can you declare the batter out and the runner as well if you never called infield fly. Are the runners supposed to read your mind as an umpire? Either stick with your gut of no iff or call it a botched call and place runners where they should have been had the correct call been made at the right time.

Great! A suggestion: at 5:38 you should be more precise: it's not the _infield fly_ that benefits the runners, it's the _infield fly _*_rule_* that benefits the runners. Without that rule, the infield fly would too dramatically benefit the defense. With the rule, the infield fly ball itself doesn't really "benefit" anybody.

I don't understand the statement that, as soon as a ball touches a player in foul territory, it's immediately foul and dead. How do we make plays in foul territory? Surely if foul ball is bobbled and then caught, it's still a fly out. Why is it different for the catcher?

Outstanding content and instruction. Keep up the great work.

One of the biggest ways an umpire can keep a little league game moving is to limit the warm up pitches between innings. 7 for a new pitcher, 5 if they are continuing from a previous inning. Have the coach warm up the pitcher if the catcher is still struggling with rec league gear. These kids will throw 50 warm up pitches if you let them.

Love the advice! I do call all my fouls with a vocal followed by either giving a ball to the catcher to get back to the pitcher or throw it to the pitcher myself then with a vocal “play” 👉 It might be a little much but I am all about keeping the game going and on a time limit game I try my hardest to get all allowed innings in without disrupting the game on the umpire end of things.