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1. I love all of your videos 2. I'm with Rick....this may be your best content yet. I'm a relatively new umpire & just excited to get Sweet 16 GHSA and Final 4 (GIAA) last year. I religiously watch your videos pre/during season. Looks like I need to add a new podcast for my drives.

Question - In case play #11....if BR while casually rounding first base makes contact with F3...BR recognizes the obstruction....so rather than returning to first base, he decides to run to second base and in the process is easily tagged out. Aren't you forced to acknowledge the obstruction and award BR second base?

Ok, catcher misses the pitch. Ball ends up rolling right at batter who has left the box. Batter interferes with throw to 3rd 1) I think if it is a wild pitch it is clearly batter interference 2) what if it is a passed ball? Catcher should have caught it but he doesn’t. Does that matter?

In the first case play the crew is lazy and untrained. Plate umpire needs to get up the first base line, not walk toward third base. Field umpire needs to gain ground toward first base and make a dynamic signal. Really pathetic umpiring.

What happens if this is the first batter of the game. First swing misses and hits the catcher. Just a strike? Do you warn the batter? What if they do it on the next two pitches for misses, strikes, and hitting the catcher both times? Does an umpire just let the batter play whack-a-mole with the catcher's head? Seriously, what rule allows me to warn/eject a player for this action?

The rules are problematic because they are complicated and require a lot of judgment. That is why there will always be "Bad calls."

Someone help me out here. In the scenario explaining 8-2-5 (beginning at 3:08 in the video), Patrick said that if the runner is beyond second base he can't return. The animated diagram also shows the runner returning to tag from second. Isn't second in this case the succeeding base? The rule includes being on, not just beyond the succeeding base so would the runner be disallowed a return to first?

Poor Judgment and Forgetting the Situation should not be in any rule book and should not be an excuse for umpires making bad calls.

For anyone that may ask the question: If a batted ball is in an infield fly situation, comes down in fair ground before going past 1st or 3rd base, then bounces into foul ground where it is then touched by a fielder, this is a foul ball. The infield fly rule would NOT be in effect.

What if your front foot is in the batters box when the pitch is thrown, but LANDS in front of the box after you hit the ball?? You out??

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Case play #4. Batter cannot be safe. (He is just confused and thinks he reached before the throw.)

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Lexie Mountains

Martine Manor

This helps. Working my first 3 man

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They are lucky that the benches did not clear .

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In my opinion an appeal on R3 isn't needed. 3rd baseman tagged 3rd base which causes R3 to be out because he didn't tag up. No appeal is needed and R3 doesn't score. Inning is over and no appeal is needed for R2 either.

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So if the infield lets the ball drop can the base runners advance without tagging up? No need to tag up if it’s not caught or do they because it is an out due to the IFF? If caught the runners can advance if they tag up?

I love the idea of these videos. But this is the 2nd time I have strongly disagreed. How can you post a training video and suggest “I don’t like the way the rule is written, so let me teach you how to misuse the language of the rule to CYA while you ignore the rule.” ??!

I don't understand why the NFHS obstruction award is different between softball and baseball. It's never made sense to me. I'd think that softball should be more likely to have an automatic "1 base" award because the the distance between bases is 30 feet shorter, making the act of obstruction more detrimental to the softball runner.

Good video!But Caseplay #6&#8 is so confused me.Maybe #8 can be considered the umpire's judgment, but #6 is too demanding on the runner.NO calling IFF,NO calling intentional drop,but IFF and out.

This is a great addition to Umpire Classroom, I have been away a few months and the changes are great. I do have one question. Is there a way to watch this without the highlighting text on the right? I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it. I am assuming these podcasts are designed to be audio only. Thanks for great work.

Why would it be a home run? Isn't that rule where a ball must travel over the fence "in flight"? In this case, it's carried several yards. So, not a catch due to not all of the pieces of the "catch" equation met. But why not a ground rule double?

Catcher and ump here. The reason it looks like a shitty slide is because he was blocking the plate. Not sure the exact rules with this league but its usually slide or avoid. Is this enough to give the call to the runner no he was out by a step but this did create a dangerous play at the plate and depending on the rules runner is safe and catcher is warned or ejected