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When did the umps start NOT to require the 2nd baseman to touch the bag on a double play?
Pharmboy ^ | 4-30-12 | Me

Posted on 04/30/2012 5:41:51 PM PDT by Pharmboy

I have noticed this for a LONG time, but I have never asked about it, nor have I ever seen it discussed.

I am watching my Mets against Houston, and the Astros have a man on first. Sharp grounder to third, and Wright backhands it and throws to Murphy at second, and Murphy is AT LEAST 1.5 feet off the bag when he catches it, wheels and throws to first; BUT the ump calls the Astro OUT at second.

When did this start??


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; doubleplay; umps
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To: magellan
"Just before the NBA stopped calling traveling.

+1!

121 posted on 04/30/2012 10:55:49 PM PDT by Drago
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To: nutmeg

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122 posted on 04/30/2012 11:02:34 PM PDT by nutmeg (Rest in Peace, and THANK YOU, Andrew Breitbart)
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To: Vendome

Thanks — I was hoping someone would at least take note of the effort into which I placed the massive sarcasm toward the OP (or SP, I guess)..

:)


123 posted on 04/30/2012 11:09:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: freedumb2003

Just plain funny.

Post on....


124 posted on 05/01/2012 12:25:05 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: MacMattico

I carry a scar on my ankle where I took a spike while completing a double play.

Nice to hear about your daughter, of course, I am sure that you are not one of those parents that ever yells at the umpire about his ever shrinking strike zone. :)


125 posted on 05/01/2012 3:06:09 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: MacMattico

I actually wasn’t being sarcastic at all. What did we all learn growing up? A tie goes to the base runner, right? I would submit that there are many times when the base runner either beats the throw by a hair or arrives at the same instant as the throw and is called out at first. Only when the runner OBVIOUSLY beats the throw do they call him safe (and Don Denkinger even screwed THAT up).


126 posted on 05/01/2012 4:16:49 AM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Me? Yell at an Umpire?!

I may make “general comments” to other onlookers seated near me in my “naturally” loud voice.... ;) Occasionally...

I did once and only ONCE plop my lawn chair directly behind the Ump and sigh quite loudly a few times. It did actually work, but my daughter told me to MOVE!

I don’t have any permanent scars, ouch!


127 posted on 05/01/2012 4:32:28 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: RightFighter

My fault. I read your post wrong. I thought you meant the first baseman didn’t have to be anywhere near the base and they’d call the runner out, like on second with the double play. My bad.


128 posted on 05/01/2012 4:40:04 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: carriage_hill
Do they have "instant replay"like football does?

They instituted a very limited instant replay rule a couple of years ago. It essentially only applies to whether a ball went over the fence on a home run and was it fair or foul. A number of ball parks have a hard wall a couple of feet behind the outfield fence and when the balls barely clear the fence, they can bounce of the wall behind the outfield wall and back into the field of play. It was difficult to determine sometimes if the ball bounced of the outfieled wall or the wall behind it. After a couple of missed calls, MLB started the instant replay rule, but only in those limited situations.

129 posted on 05/01/2012 5:34:48 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (I <3 PEJSWDTDSOPC)
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To: Revolting cat!
Don’t you ever forget that your signup date determines the level of your intelligence to the self described weisenheimers here!

Unless the relationship is direct rather than inverse, I don't know how that explains me.

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130 posted on 05/01/2012 5:39:09 AM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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To: dewawi

“Tell me who has to get lives again?”

The loser with nothing better to do than cause trouble on a thread totally irrelevant to said loser.

Rude and stupid...nice combination.


131 posted on 05/01/2012 5:43:37 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Pray for America!!!)
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To: Vermont Lt

“They would have to wear armor to protect their shins. Everyone agrees that it’s better to let it slide, so to speak.”

Also eliminates knee injuries at second.

Having been both ripped with steel spikes at second (gave back as good as I got too) and had my knee blown out at the same base it is a very good way to protect the players.


132 posted on 05/01/2012 6:06:42 AM PDT by buffaloguy (uab.)
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To: martinidon

In 1969 at Al Somers umpire school (taken over by Harry Wendlesteadt (SP) and I think now his son). we were taught to call it safe if they missed the bag.

I had the same point. It didn’t appear that that was the case in practice. Not as many re-runs payed as you see now with various camera angles and multiple play-backs.

Personally and with my partners in the minor leagues, we would call a missed base tag safe only if we were sure of it. Many close swipes went to the fielders.

When you’re inside the bases because there’s a runner on base its not always the easiest call . Most of the short stops go behind the base and will get a “close” call.

The injury thing is an issue also. But it wasn’t something to which I gave priority.

In umpire school we were told that the good players will touch the bag, but I think they all worry about the injury.

In professional sports, if both sides don’t want it called, it may not be called. Position is, if you call it that way for them, you have to call it that way for us. The umps learn what those calls are and I think they often do what the teams want.

Basketball is similar and many times more often. Also, it looks like stars get more slack than the average player.

Here’s a story. A new rookie pitcher was on the mound when Ted Williams came to the plate. They say Williams eye was so good he could read the label on the pitched ball as it came to the plate.

The pitcher threw one near the outside corner. Williams didn’t swing and the umpire said “Ball one.”

The next pitch was very close on the inside corner. Williams took the pitch and the ump said “Ball Two.”

The pitcher came down off the mound a little and said “looked like a strike.”

The ump took off the mask and went around to the front of the plate and said: “Son, Mr. Williams will let you know when it’s a strike.”


133 posted on 05/01/2012 6:25:09 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Vendome

Can’t fault him that, excepting its inappropriate for such newbie (though God only knows what incarnation this is). But he clearly has no love for baseball, and that, along with Mom and apple pie, is an essential for any true conservative.


134 posted on 05/01/2012 7:26:25 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: dewawi

And yet you are here....


135 posted on 05/01/2012 7:34:36 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Government health officials seem to have the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Now that’s respect! Lovin’ it! Haha.


136 posted on 05/01/2012 7:36:37 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Pharmboy

Nicely played.


137 posted on 05/01/2012 7:45:21 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: morphing libertarian
Also, it looks like stars get more slack than the average player.

Yes, it does ... and it's as corrosive to honor and decency in sports as it is in the 'real' world.

138 posted on 05/01/2012 7:46:56 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: BluesDuke

Why aren’t you here? :)


139 posted on 05/01/2012 8:07:04 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I think it peaked somewhat with Michael Jordan, but when I see Kobe force his way through a defender to push off and get a shot and/or call, I know it’s still alive. Easy to spot in the NBA.


140 posted on 05/01/2012 9:07:23 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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