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This is from another web site. I did not witness the play. I'm doing a copy and paste.
I asked the poster if the offensive coach questioned the umpire. This was his response.
What is the correct umpire mechanics in this situation? Shouldn't it be no call made seeing as how the catcher did not tag the runner and the runner did not tag the plate?
Runner comes home on a tag play with less than 2 outs. Runner eludes the catcher swing tag with back door slide. Blue signals AND yells safe. Runner gets up and begins to walk back to dugout. Defensive coach yells tag her, blue then calls the runner out. Thoughts?
I asked the poster if the offensive coach questioned the umpire. This was his response.
We questioned the ump-he said he signaled and yelled safe, no tag. I told him I didn't hear no tag, he said doesn't matter the signal overrides everything. I then said safe is safe then, and he said no because your player never touched the plate. I told him every player looks for the safe sign and when they see it they presume they are safe, he said unless they didn't touch the base (you can see how this conversation became very circular).
UIC said call was correct and excellent mechanics. Every ump on the field said that is the way to call the play. My thing then ASA needs to change how that is called, you can't have players guessing am I really safe or kinda safe.
What is the correct umpire mechanics in this situation? Shouldn't it be no call made seeing as how the catcher did not tag the runner and the runner did not tag the plate?
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