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Originally Posted by Lathum
I almost got run for the first time last night.
I coach my daughters rec team. We were playing a team from a different town last night that we really wanted to beat. After being up 5-1 the game was tied 6-6 thanks to a few rough plays in the field from traditional "rec" players (you will understand if you have a kid who played rec ball).
My daughter caught the whole game since we were playing to win (she is starting catcher as a sixth grader for the middle school team and also plays high lever tournament travel ball), plus our other catcher wasn't there.
Bottom of the last inning tied 6-6. Their lead off batter of course hits one to by far the worst kid on our team and it predictably gets botched. It is rec so I don't get upset by that. Girl is on second and next pitch steals third. My daughter rifles a throw down and the girl just beats it but as she pops up her leg comes a good 6 inches off the bag with the tag still on and her other leg clearly on the dirt. My daughter immediately looks at the ump and says her leg was off the bag. He says nope, safe.
He had blown a similar call earlier in the game where she gunned down a girl at third and the girl slid a good 2 inches off the bag and he called her safe.
I started screaming at the ump saying that was twice he missed that call and he has to see that and make the right call. We of course lost and I was so pissed.
We record all the games and I went back and watched and it is clear as day her foot came up. also cost my daughter 2 caught stealings when at that age those are hard to come by.
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If you could do it all over, would you scream at the ump again?