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April 28, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: NEED A GOOD UTRIP BAT UMBACH before purchasing a bat you first need to find out if the league your referencing requires all bats to have the new USSSA 2013 approved stamp on them or not. All bats used in USSSA conference, NIT and qualifing tournaments MUST have that stamp on it. USSSA sanctioned house leagues have the option of requiring it or not requiring it. Check with the league director on that. If that stamp is required then from what I've seen thus far (I've umpired 3 USSSA tourneys already) the TPS Z-2000 (either red or green color trim) and the Worth 454 (orange colored bat) seem to be the hottest bats. I couldn't offer which are balanced or end loaded.
April 28, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: Your Prayers are Needed My heartfelt prayers are with your grandaughter and your family Steve. God is most definitely awesome.
April 12, 2013 stick8	Topic: Tournaments Discussion: rockin reno game sites Thanks!!
April 12, 2013 stick8	Topic: Tournaments Discussion: rockin reno game sites Staff, heard that some of the divisions wil be playing only on Friday and Saturday--no sunday games to make it easier for players to travel back home. Is this true?
April 2, 2013 stick8	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: You make the call Cal50 technically that wouldn't be a continous double play because if there was a runner on third who is fast enough to cross the plate before the tag was applied in your scenario that run counts. Maybe Usain Bolt is fast enough? :)
April 2, 2013 stick8	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: You make the call Cal50 did you mean the doubling off at first and not appeal at first? Irregardless, you are correct in the "4th out" scenario. I still can't figure out how two college umpires got this wrong--that is unless they are lying about being college umps.
April 2, 2013 stick8	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: You make the call Correct SSUSA Staff. Unbelievably, both college umpires and one other in our group got it wrong in that they felt it was a force play and thus no run. The run scores if the runner crosses the plate before the runner was doubled off at first. If he crosses the plate after the runner was doubled off at first then no run--thus the "timing play" as you elluded to.
April 2, 2013 stick8	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: You make the call This was at a high school baseball rules meeting last week. The assignor wanted us to take a rules test and let us break up into groups of 5 to take the test. The test wasnt required to be an ump, just something to learn from. Of the five in my group, 2 also umpire college baseball. The one question was: Runners on 1st and 3rd, one out. Fly ball to right. Runner on third tags up, runner on first plays it halfway. Catch is made. Runner from third comes into score. Runner who played it halfway goes back to first but trips and falls down. Right fielder throws to first doubling off the runner for the third out. Does the run that came in from third count?
March 27, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play Appreciate it Allan55. Keep in mind I can give the USSSA answer on most situations. Other associations including seniors may have different rules depending on the play. It is amazing to me that many veteran players don't know some of the rules.
March 26, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play Allan55, The way you describe it I have interference on the runner. That baserunner cannot intentionally or unintentionally interfere with a defensive player attempting to make a play on a batted ball.
March 25, 2013 stick8	Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: player looking to get on a team downriver michigan Jimmy glad your healed up. Haven't been out to novi yet but unless the weather breaks ill try and make it out there once or twice.
March 24, 2013 stick8	Topic: Players looking to join a team Discussion: player looking to get on a team downriver michigan Jimmy, hope your winter was good. Are uready to go?
March 24, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play Allan55 that's not necessarily true in USSSA. Contrary to popular belief there is no rule that specifies a runner must slide or get out of the way in your scenario. Now in a low level house league I'd likely call interference. The rule is The runner cannot do anything that is deemed to interfere with the throw. Is running straight to the bag considered interference?
March 24, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play Southernson that's USSSA rules. Other associations including senior ones may be different. That's why it's imperative when your team is batting stay in the dugout and keep bats in the dugout to avoid a situation like that.
March 18, 2013 stick8	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Catcher's verbal interference Saying "there it is" isn't a big deal but if a team complains about it then I'll tell the other teams manager to tell his catcher refrain. Or I might tell the catcher to refrain.
March 18, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play Wayne, the way the play is described by curty yes, it is interference. Consider this scenario I had umpiring a USSSA C nit last year: Runners on 1st and 2nd, 1 out. Base hit to right field. Runner on 2nd is coming in to score so the rightfielder throws home. Throw is up the third base line, gets by the catcher and hits the batting teams manager (who ran out to tell the runner to stand up). I immediately called dead ball and called the runner closest to home out at the time of the pitch(runner that was on second). They argued that the runner had already crossed the plate when the throw hit the manager. That does not matter one bit. Curty's situation is the same thing. That's why umpires need to do a better job of keeping all bats and except for the on deck batter all players in the dugout. That's a big sticking (no pun) point when I umpire.
March 17, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play USSSA rule is dead ball, runner closest to plate at the time of the pitch is out.
March 15, 2013 stick8	Topic: General and miscellaneous Discussion: strange play Interesting situation. As the play is described I'd go with jackbrun's call. But I'd have to witness it to make an accurate call. Suppose the batter runner in this situation was walking back to the dugout and ball struck his bat while he was carrying it?
March 15, 2013 stick8	Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Force play Vinny LV I'll be in Florida next week. I'm going to take in the Tigers-Astros game next Thursday night. I always take a couple innings and watch the umpires. Most of the time they are in proper position and right on every call. You do raise a good question. I'm not certain if the WBC is using major league umpires or not. Anyone out there know?
March 12, 2013 stick8	Topic: Bats Discussion: Talk regarding illegal bats Neck10, personally I don't care at all. I should have specified my experience was USSSA mens ball. Altering a bat is against USSSSA rules. Spotting someone altering a bat and then said person using that same bat in a sanctioned USSSA game is against the rules. In this case they guy did it and walked right up to the plate with the same bat. If I let him slide and he drills a pitcher and thus injuring him that pitcher has a pretty good lawsuit he can impose. And myself being the one who weas the umpire could be held partially liable for knowingly permitting an altered--illegal bat to be used. It's not worth taking the risk. How's your team shaping up this year?

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