After being scheduled for 3 days of 18U ball this coming weekend and 3 more the weekend after that (July 4th), I got a call last Sat from my assigner, asking if I'd ump a 1-man DH'er on Sunday. Two solid 18U teams, with back-to back scrimmages. Sure, why not? There was only one COVID-19...
WARNING - This post will be of no interest to any coach or parent. It's got nothing to do with rules, but just about an umpire signal.
As I've said, I know the game from many years of coaching and umpiring, but what I lack somewhat is formal training. Because I coached HS varsity for so many...
WARNING! This is a LONG post!
When I first started posting here a couple of months ago, I was responding to a post about the batter making contact with a batted ball while still in the batter's box. The talk had turned to the difference between the batter running into the batted ball, and the...
This came up in the Look Back Rule thread, but was really a side discussion.
So, the purpose of all that was to say that, after not umpiring a slow pitch game for probably 25 years, I finally did one on Friday night. Bar league, no contact league. Usually one man game, but using 2 for...