wcoastsoftball
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This happened this summer, caught up with the ump a couple weeks ago to try to explain my thoughts, but he stood by his call.
Plate umpire, no field ump....Runner on first, I am on second. Ground ball to lefty shortstop who fields it inside the baseline. Seeing what was happening and him being lefty, figuring he would toss to third, I put my head down and ran as hard as I could in case there was a wide throw or something similar. Instead, he turns to his right (back to me), into my path and tags me as I run into him (I put my hands up so as to not knock him down). I concede I was out, but then as I got to the dugout, ump called the runner on first out at second for interference on me.
I got heated and eventually tossed for saying that was a ******** call. My assumption was he was not in the baseline when fielding the ball, so I had a right to the path to third, he turned into me.
Plate umpire, no field ump....Runner on first, I am on second. Ground ball to lefty shortstop who fields it inside the baseline. Seeing what was happening and him being lefty, figuring he would toss to third, I put my head down and ran as hard as I could in case there was a wide throw or something similar. Instead, he turns to his right (back to me), into my path and tags me as I run into him (I put my hands up so as to not knock him down). I concede I was out, but then as I got to the dugout, ump called the runner on first out at second for interference on me.
I got heated and eventually tossed for saying that was a ******** call. My assumption was he was not in the baseline when fielding the ball, so I had a right to the path to third, he turned into me.