It’s a good day in the Bus League.
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So earlier in the game the kids switched their spots in the batting order and nobody noticed. So technically did that establish a new batting order and the kid shouldn’t have been called out the next time he came up?
Correct. Batting out of order must be appealed by the defensive team before the next pitch or attempted play. If it is not, it establishes a new batting order. So sounds like that batter should not have been called out later in the game.
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Classic little league solution that in getting it half right we actually got it wrong.
In better news, the Westbury Astros are on a five game winning streak.
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Care to trade some of your pitchers?
Or all of them?
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I can think of three that could easily contribute.
All coaching!
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Yes. Not only that, they are experimenting with in show product placement based on location. So, they will shoot 12 different versions of a small part of a scene with individual products based on locations and farm those out to the various broadcasters by region. they are testing the effectiveness and, such edits will be made super easy by AI.
I want to see a close up of a pitcher coming set while bringing a can of barbasol up to his chin.
A Baylor game last week had a wild situation:
Baylor batting, runners on 1st and 2nd, nobody out.
Batter hits a line drive up the middle. Shortstop dives, gets his glove on it, but doesn’t catch it. Runners retreat thinking it will be caught, but when ball drops, they start to advance.
SS picks up the ball and tosses to 2nd for the forceout; 2B then throws to 3B, where the ump signals “out,” thinking it’s a force play. Third baseman only half-heartedly attempts a tag (and misses), thinking the runner is already out.
Baylor coach comes out to argue that the runner on 3B should be safe because it wasn’t a force and the tag wasn’t applied in time. (There was also some question about whether the SS dropped the ball on purpose.)
Umps huddle, and I guess rely on umpire discretion to land here: Runner from first is out (forced at second); batter is on 1st (reaching on FC); runner from second is not out, but is returned to second.
That ticked off both coaches. Opposing coach wanted the out at 3B, because the ump signaled it. Baylor coach wanted the runner safe at 3B, because he slid in safely. Umps basically split the baby.
Next batter hit a groundball that would have scored the runner from 3b, but instead only moved him to 3b, and that run didn’t end up scoring. Thankfully, that didn’t end up determining the game.
Seems like 1st/3rd with 1 out should have been the result.
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Agreed. We never got any real explanation as to why they did what they did.
What I imagine they were thinking is, because of the confusion on the force/tag, the compromise was"he’s not out, but we send him back."
Not sure how you can come to that conclusion if there was no definitive tag on the runner at 3rd. Personally, I’d put the onus on the lack of tag. If you’re not sure, tag him doofus.
However, the out call by the umpire makes it even more nebulous.
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That result makes no sense. When an umpire misapplies a rule, such as calling a runner out on a force when there is none, the result is generally that the runners are placed at the base they would have reached had the call been correct. If the umpires rule that the fielder intentionally dropped the line drive, it’s an immediate dead ball, the batter is out and runners return to their original bases. So it’s either batter at 1B and two outs, or runners at 1B and 3B with one out. I think it should be the latter. Ump made a bad call, deal with it, defense. Under no circumstances I can see should the batter be awarded 1B and R2 be sent back to 2B.
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Phillies fire Rob Thomson.
Espada’s tenure has to be down to weeks, not months.
If they have already made the decision to fire you, are you really still on the hot seat?
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I’m not sure you have a seat.
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Nightingale (so grains of salt) says Cora turned down the Philly job
Rosenthal confirms, says the Phils courted him “intensely” immediately after he was fired. Dombrowski must love him from their time together in Boston.
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