Dear Catcher.. from your freindly umpire

[_MIA_]

DD had a tournament last weekend where some of the top 10U teams in the country were playing (hers isn't one of them ) A few of the pitchers were throwing mid to high 50's from 35 feet. 3 separate times I saw a catcher completely whiff on a chest high fastball and the ump taking it directly in the facemask..ouch.

 

[Hawk_]

As a coach, if the ump gets hit good...... call time and talk to your batter. I have called time and talked to my pitcher after an ump was hit and I stood there with my arm over her shoulder and just waited for the ump to shake it off, just told my pitcher why I called time and waited for the ump. Everyone in the park knew what I was doing cause I called time so fast. Ump didn't charge me for the time. Same as a good ump cleaning the plate when the catcher needs a min.

 

[bmakj]

As a coach, if the ump gets hit good...... call time and talk to your batter. I have called time and talked to my pitcher after an ump was hit and I stood there with my arm over her shoulder and just waited for the ump to shake it off, just told my pitcher why I called time and waited for the ump. Everyone in the park knew what I was doing cause I called time so fast. Ump didn't charge me for the time. Same as a good ump cleaning the plate when the catcher needs a min.

wow, was confused as all hell til I realized I was reading it wrong, mentally putting a comma after hit

 

[_MIA_]

As a coach, if the ump gets hit good...... call time and talk to your batter. I have called time and talked to my pitcher after an ump was hit and I stood there with my arm over her shoulder and just waited for the ump to shake it off, just told my pitcher why I called time and waited for the ump. Everyone in the park knew what I was doing cause I called time so fast. Ump didn't charge me for the time. Same as a good ump cleaning the plate when the catcher needs a min.

I was just watching, not participating. No time call was needed as the umpires in question just walked away to get their wits about them.

 

[The Man In Blue]

wow, was confused as all hell til I realized I was reading it wrong, mentally putting a comma after hit

I had the same reaction and was going to talk about the value of punctuation!

While I appreciate that as a ump, it would precarious if the other team pushed the issue later in the game (to force a pitcher out or to prevent an offensive conference later in the inning). If you are going to do that, try to get the BU to come over to verify you aren’t doing any coaching (kind of like an injury time out). Best practice is to have the catcher go out.

 

[Laphoneman]

I’m going to say this not trying to be disrespectful. But the umpires should call the pitch by where the ball is when it crosses the plate and stop worrying about what catcher is doing afterwards

 

[marriard]

I’m going to say this not trying to be disrespectful. But the umpires should call the pitch by where the ball is when it crosses the plate and stop worrying about what catcher is doing afterwards

Not disrespectful at all.

I absolutely do call it that way - but I also absolutely appreciate a catcher who makes everything easier by making it easy as possible to do so.

 

[Chad504boy]

I’m going to say this not trying to be disrespectful. But the umpires should call the pitch by where the ball is when it crosses the plate and stop worrying about what catcher is doing afterwards

honestly, just seems like some umps are high maintenance!!!

 

[bss09]

honestly, just seems like some umps are high maintenance!!!

This was an amazing thread until this comment.

Great input, I will have my catcher daughter reading all but the last comment! Thank you.


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[chardrok]

Great input, I will have my catcher daughter reading all but the last comment! Thank you.

Lol. I forwarded this thread to my DD yesterday.