Longball 28
Repping the Vinci
Playing tonight and our 2B fields the ball and tosses to SS who steps on 2nd and when he goes to throw to 1st he gets trucked by the runner coming from first. Ump tosses the runner out of the game out the but calls the batter safe said there was no interference because the SS wasn't going to throw the ball even though he was just starting to raise his arm to throw. Would have been the 3rd out they go on to scored 5 with 2 outs.
Come to the bottom of the last inning they are the home team and they are chasing 4. Ump stops the game with 1 out 2 batters ahead of the guy who was ejected and announces that if the guy before the ejected player comes up to bat with 2 outs we can't intentionally walk the the #10(now because he was the 11th batter before the ejection) to get to the last out. I argue that rule with him that it only applies for an injured player not and ejected player that the ejected player gets no special compensation for being an ******* and trucking out SS. He says not the rule says we can't intentionally walk him to get to the out. He tells me I'm wrong an the rules says we can't intentionally walk him to get to the out. At that point I ask him to clarify the intentionally walking part. I said If we legitimatly pitch to him he can't take the walk and he said we aren't allowed to intentionally walk him. At which point I said then no matter what as long as we try to pitch to him he can't take a walk to protect the out and the other team starts bitching. They whined and complained enough that the Ump says he's making the final decision no matter what he can't walk that we have to pitch to him and he has to try to hit the ball. Mind you we were playing in 20+ MPH winds all night long and gets to a full count and he walks him to load the bases. The ejected player isn't counted and their #2 hitter comes up and they hit a few singles and eventually win the game.
Now as far as I know the only time the pitching around the player with 2 outs applies only if their player is out because of injury not an ejection. I can't see any way that they should benefit from their lead off hitter trucking our SS...
Anyone know the exact ruling on this all I can find in the book is the player that is ejected is always an out.
Come to the bottom of the last inning they are the home team and they are chasing 4. Ump stops the game with 1 out 2 batters ahead of the guy who was ejected and announces that if the guy before the ejected player comes up to bat with 2 outs we can't intentionally walk the the #10(now because he was the 11th batter before the ejection) to get to the last out. I argue that rule with him that it only applies for an injured player not and ejected player that the ejected player gets no special compensation for being an ******* and trucking out SS. He says not the rule says we can't intentionally walk him to get to the out. He tells me I'm wrong an the rules says we can't intentionally walk him to get to the out. At that point I ask him to clarify the intentionally walking part. I said If we legitimatly pitch to him he can't take the walk and he said we aren't allowed to intentionally walk him. At which point I said then no matter what as long as we try to pitch to him he can't take a walk to protect the out and the other team starts bitching. They whined and complained enough that the Ump says he's making the final decision no matter what he can't walk that we have to pitch to him and he has to try to hit the ball. Mind you we were playing in 20+ MPH winds all night long and gets to a full count and he walks him to load the bases. The ejected player isn't counted and their #2 hitter comes up and they hit a few singles and eventually win the game.
Now as far as I know the only time the pitching around the player with 2 outs applies only if their player is out because of injury not an ejection. I can't see any way that they should benefit from their lead off hitter trucking our SS...
Anyone know the exact ruling on this all I can find in the book is the player that is ejected is always an out.