Besides....why would a catcher do that and allow a runner to advance and possibly even score? Looks like he lost track of the ball and was going down for what he thought was a big breaking ball.
Poorly written article. Which team one? The team batting or fielding. It doesn’t say. Also, what would the motive be? Did the ump miss some calls? Had there been arguments before hand. I’ve seen some pretty bazaar things in games. If a catcher is going to let the ump get hit, he would do it more subtly, and more than once. I think the catcher missed the ball plain and simple.
Scott Singer, hired by Cartersville to tape and do play-by-play of the game, was behind home plate during the pitch. He said the Martin brothers had complained of calls before the pitch hit the umpire.
"Those two, the pitcher and his brother, the entire game had been riding the umpire about balls and strikes, and [Ethan Martin] got rung up in the top of the fourth, so that was payback in the bottom of the fourth," Singer said. "I don't know what was going through their heads, but when you see a catcher go to his right, it's like 'Good God!'"
Terry Martin, the father of Ethan and Cody Martin, a junior, said he was advised not to allow his sons talk to the Journal-Constitution. He would not elaborate. Hill, a senior who has signed to play at Gordon College in Barnesville, could not be reached.