Illinois high school baseball state playoffs

[illinifan999]

This is getting some talk back from where I'm from as a local team that I wanna say were a 10 seed made it to the semi-finals of the state tournament and got to play Highland, whose starting pitcher was drafted 32nd by the Brewers. There was a huge call made against Crystal Lake Central where the umpire said the batter did not make an attempt to avoid being hit by a pitch. It was the top of the 5th, with the bases loaded in a scoreless game. Here's the video of the pitch: http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/multimedia/videoplayer.php?id=clchitbypitch/

Here's a video of the game where you can see 2 Highland players being hit with a pitch and awarded a
http://www.mchenrycountysports.com/multimedia/videoplayer.php?id=20080606clcstate/

Just wanted to get some opinions to see if any of you guys think it was the right call.

[st.cronin]

Looks like the right call to me.

[GoldenEagle]

I umpire youth baseball, including many youth baseball world series. I think it is a terrible call. He clearly moved away from the plate and then got hit with the pitch. He made an attempt to get out the way. It was just a lousy call.

What was the final score of the game?

[MrBug708]

I think it was the wrong call

[illinifan999]

I umpire youth baseball, including many youth baseball world series. I think it is a terrible call. He clearly moved away from the plate and then got hit with the pitch. He made an attempt to get out the way. It was just a lousy call.

What was the final score of the game?

1-0.

[cougarfreak]

I've umpired and coached a lot of high school ball. It LOOKS like he tried to get out of the way, BUT that's a really bad angle to tell if he moved away from the ball or not.

[lungs]

On another note, us Brewer fans are pretty excited about this kid from Highland.

[st.cronin]

It looks to me like the kid raises his arm slightly to get into the plane of the pitch - that if he had just stood still the ball would have missed him. It is very hard to tell, though. When I was playing high school, I had that call go against me at least a couple of times (I used to get hbp a lot).

[johnnyshaka]

Hate the call.

[johnnyshaka]

Also, looks like the winning run was due to two throwing errors on a stolen base attempt...that hurts even more than the botched HBP call, IMO.

[illinifan999]

It looks to me like the kid raises his arm slightly to get into the plane of the pitch - that if he had just stood still the ball would have missed him. It is very hard to tell, though. When I was playing high school, I had that call go against me at least a couple of times (I used to get hbp a lot).

One of my teammates in high school got hit by a pitch 3 times during one at-bat. Everytime, the ump made him stay at the plate.