Looks like the kind of umpires we get. The opposite happened to us 2 tournaments ago. Very clear and blatant look back, wouldn't give us the call. I don't think half the umpires even understand that rule. Kinda like the umpire in PGF A State who ignored 2 instances of catcher's inference in one inning, instead of giving us the call, instructing the catcher. Hello, this 12U **A State**. Not the time to teach them and let it slide, if it ever is. For some reason we seem to be a magnet for this stuff. I often have to bite my tongue when I see things about abusive parents and umpires, because we get so, so many awful calls and we are never abusive, our coaches are calm FTMP and when they do get fired up it's never in an abusive way. And yet, bad call after bad call. We have it all on video. We don't use it, just look at it to see if we were wrong (rarely). We could probably start a whole YouTube channel if we were so inclined. It's worse every year, I swear.
While we don’t have to drive 10 hours for tournaments, I do wonder what the girls really get out of a 10U-C level game that even if not a complete walkfest, sees them finishing barely 4 innings in the allotted 1hr 15 mins.
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While we don’t have to drive 10 hours for tournaments, I do wonder what the girls really get out of a 10U-C level game that even if not a complete walkfest, sees them finishing barely 4 innings in the allotted 1hr 15 mins.
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This call is so wrong that I can only come up with two possible explanations:
A. The umpire just doesn't know the rule or doesn't understand the rule.
B. The runner should have been called out on the previous pitch or pitches and he is now making up for missing it. She is certainly making an annoyingly slow stroll back to the base. Perhaps she stood around on the prior pitch before she started her slow journey back to the base & someone said, "She's out for that." Then the girl wisely corrected her mistake, but he rang her up as a make up call.
I offer B as a possibility because I've seen it happen. The girl violates the LBR and the coach and crowd start yelling to the ump. He realizes that he missed it, but is going to get it right this time... of course she hears the crowd so she doesn't violate the LBR this time, but he calls her out anyway.
And yet, bad call after bad call. We have it all on video. We don't use it, just look at it to see if we were wrong (rarely). We could probably start a whole YouTube channel if we were so inclined. It's worse every year, I swear.
I don't agree at all with yelling at umpires, of course. Even if I have to resist the urge myself sometimes. Sometimes our team let's out a "Come on, Blue!" or something asking those lines but it stays pretty inoffensive.The reason for it is the abuse the umpires take from parents who don't know the rules. The good umpires are leaving the game because the abuse it not worth it. So you're getting inexperienced umpires at the lower levels because the good/experienced umpires will only work the older levels.
I had to yell at my parents one time after the umpire made a correct call. It was a caught foul tip for a 2nd strike with a stealing running. The runner was safe. My parents were yelling at the umpire the runner had to be returned to 1st because it was a foul ball. The umpire was trying to explain the rule to my parents without success. I finally had to come out of the dugout and tell my parents the umpire made the correct call and I will explain the rule to them after the game and it's not the umpire's job to explain the rules to the fans. My parents were still a little grumbly until I pulled out the rule book and showed them the rule.
Last season during a fall tournament had an opposing coach go off on an umpire because he did not understand the interference rule when a call when against his team. He got tossed from the game and started to make it personal. The umpire forfeited the game to us. The TD asked me what happened and I told him the coach was arguing with the umpire and made it personal.