We had a mildly interetsing play that I'm curious about the ruling we got from the umpire. I have no reason to doubt his rulling but since I've never heard it before I wanted to know if it was correct.
We had runners on 1st & 2nd. Batter hits double to left center.
R1 on 2nd easily scores.
R2 on first stops on 3B (more on that later), goes towards home, changes her mind and heads back to 3rd, 3B coach sends her and she breaks for home sliding in ahead the relay throw apparently safe at home.
B goes from 2nd to 3rd on throw home. C -> 3B (who is on the bag like 1B for some reason) receives throw but batter slides in before tag can be applied safe at 3rd.
Nothing unusal yet. HU now immediately calls R2 (who started on 1st) out for missing 3B. Clearly he was watching R1 score when R2 stopped on 3rd and only saw her dancing and incorrectly assumed she missed the bag. BU did not see, was watching for potential play at 2B on B so since it was judgement we could not appeal to BU to overrule HU that she had in fact touched 3B.
The question we had though was on the actual rulling on R2, assuming our R2 had actully missed 3B. We thought this required an appeal play by defensive team. HU said no, because throw to 3rd reached base BEFORE runner (B) occupied the bag it was an automatic appeal that the defense did not have to ask for.
His explaintion of the rule seemed reasonable but I did want to double check if that was the correct rulling or if this is a case where you should be required to ask for an appeal.
Mind you this is local rec league with volunteer ump so I didn't give him a hard time on it and even though we lost, our poor defensive play and too many BBs by P were the reason we lost, not the call that was made.
We had runners on 1st & 2nd. Batter hits double to left center.
R1 on 2nd easily scores.
R2 on first stops on 3B (more on that later), goes towards home, changes her mind and heads back to 3rd, 3B coach sends her and she breaks for home sliding in ahead the relay throw apparently safe at home.
B goes from 2nd to 3rd on throw home. C -> 3B (who is on the bag like 1B for some reason) receives throw but batter slides in before tag can be applied safe at 3rd.
Nothing unusal yet. HU now immediately calls R2 (who started on 1st) out for missing 3B. Clearly he was watching R1 score when R2 stopped on 3rd and only saw her dancing and incorrectly assumed she missed the bag. BU did not see, was watching for potential play at 2B on B so since it was judgement we could not appeal to BU to overrule HU that she had in fact touched 3B.
The question we had though was on the actual rulling on R2, assuming our R2 had actully missed 3B. We thought this required an appeal play by defensive team. HU said no, because throw to 3rd reached base BEFORE runner (B) occupied the bag it was an automatic appeal that the defense did not have to ask for.
His explaintion of the rule seemed reasonable but I did want to double check if that was the correct rulling or if this is a case where you should be required to ask for an appeal.
Mind you this is local rec league with volunteer ump so I didn't give him a hard time on it and even though we lost, our poor defensive play and too many BBs by P were the reason we lost, not the call that was made.