Runner out due to look back rule?

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Nov 29, 2009
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So let's make up our own rules. The girl never stopped or changed direction while heading back to the base. She was not running, but she never stopped. The rue does not say how fast a player must return to the base.

Absolutely a poor call.
 
May 17, 2012
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I personally would not have called her out. Once the ball is in the circle, she made her decision.

If I were the runners coach I would simply ask, "Why give the umpire a chance to make that call. Get back to the base."
 
May 1, 2017
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Our assistant coach was banned to the dugout after protesting and our head coach was told to get out of the park. He was collecting his things when the tournament director tried to grab him and make him leave. He wasn't yelling or making a scene. Just trying to get his stuff. Also, this was my DD and she normally just turns and fast walks back to the bag, but she was told to stop turning her back in a previous game so she started doing the weird grapevine walk seen here.
 
May 1, 2017
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No, it is the incorrect call. For that matter, there was no call to make. Once the pitcher entered the circle with the ball, the runner returned to the base. There is no time limit or required speed in which to do so.

Lol, I wasn't confident in my knowledge of the game so I thought my basic understanding of the rule might have been wrong. I really have no clue what he saw that made him call her out and cite that rule.
 
Jun 12, 2015
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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.
 

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