If you go to this link and watch the Thursday 11:00 broadcast (after the Anthony Davis interview) you will see highlights.

 

In watching it I think blue said he stuck his leg out to get hit. Just a guess.

 

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Here's a link to the video. It's in the top right corner.

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For what it's worth, the home plate umpire will be going to the State Tournament.

From the video, I'd even venture to say that he leaned into the pitch. He certainly presents his leg forward a bit.

From the video, I'd even venture to say that he leaned into the pitch. He certainly presents his leg forward a bit.

 

Maybe, but think about this. If a ball is coming at you at 75-80 mph, what is your reaction going to be? To me, his body made a natural reaction to the ball coming at him and he was trying to protect himself. I know my knees go "in" easier than they go "out".

Maybe, but think about this. If a ball is coming at you at 75-80 mph, what is your reaction going to be? To me, his body made a natural reaction to the ball coming at him and he was trying to protect himself. I know my knees go "in" easier than they go "out".

 

I can understand that. However to me, it is all about the way that it looks. Forget about natural reaction. Its about the way it looks. And from the way this looks, he leaned into it with his knee/leg.

I can understand that. However to me, it is all about the way that it looks. Forget about natural reaction. Its about the way it looks. And from the way this looks, he leaned into it with his knee/leg.

 

I agree with you. It's kind of like in soccer when a ball is coming at your face and you put your arms/hands up to protect yourself. It's still going to be called a hand ball.

I agree with you. It's kind of like in soccer when a ball is coming at your face and you put your arms/hands up to protect yourself. It's still going to be called a hand ball.

 

Ive always said I might watch soccer if they tied the players hands behind there backs. Why not they cant use them anyways.

Looking at the video, I think it was a bad call. Looked like he took a normal stride. The key to me, is I think even if he tries to move, he still maybe gets hit with the pitch. Those balls that bounce right in front of you are tough to avoid. As a batter, If I know I'm going to get hit, I at least want to be able to control where I get hit...and that may mean not moving. Unless the ball is coming at my arms at or below the elbow, or coming at my head, I was taught to stay in there. If this situation happened at the pro or college level, I guarantee the batter gets the base.

Looking at the video, I think it was a bad call. Looked like he took a normal stride. The key to me, is I think even if he tries to move, he still maybe gets hit with the pitch. Those balls that bounce right in front of you are tough to avoid. As a batter, If I know I'm going to get hit, I at least want to be able to control where I get hit...and that may mean not moving. Unless the ball is coming at my arms at or below the elbow, or coming at my head, I was taught to stay in there. If this situation happened at the pro or college level, I guarantee the batter gets the base.

 

I don't think the ball bounced. If you watch the replay again the batter had plenty of time to turn to protect his upper body, but by doing that he turned his knee and leg into the ball. Again, I don't think the ball bounced in front of the plate. If it did it took an incredible hop for it to get back up to his knee level.

I think its safe to say we see who is the cov cath of the 10th region. You got beat these umps are human and it happens so fast you cannot make every call right. You can go online and take the test to be a umpire if its that easy and you can get paid to watch the game. How many threads in this post season have people complained about the umps, ITS CRAZY people its part of the game learn from it, don't cry about it, and just move on.

I think its safe to say we see who is the cov cath of the 10th region. .

 

Your stiffness towards CCH is evident.

I have no dog in the fight. He definitely made no attempt to get out of the way of the pitch and he did move his leg into the pitch.

First off, there are no special rules for Kentucky High School baseball. Kentucky follows NFHS rules, as do the other states.

 

Section 7.3.4 of the NFHS Rulebook states "The batter shall not permit a pitched ball to touch him." Based upon this brief wording, I think it pretty clearly implies that the batter needs to make some kind of attempt, however minimal, to avoid being hit. However . . . .

 

The NFHS Case Book, which provides specific examples of implementing the rules, also states this in 7.3.4 Situation D:

 

B1 is at bat with a two ball, no strike count. The batter is fooled by the pitch and did not permit the ball to hit him. The pitch hits him in the shoulder. The batter made no other movement. RULING: B1 is awarded first base.

So clearly there are allowable situations in which a batter can make no movement, yet still be awarded first base. I could see this occurring in the situation of an inside breaking ball in which the batter held his position, not knowing exactly how much the pitch would break. If it didn't break quite as much as he thought and he got hit, the umpire would be justified in awarding him first base.

 

I haven't seen the video from this game to know how it applies to this rule (don't have the right kind of Flash Player here at office), but the above are the rules that are applied to this situation.

 

Harrison Co.had men on 2nd and 3rd no outs. Hit a shallow fly ball to center for one out. Then Brossart walks next man to load bases.Next batter hits ball to short who throws home for second out. Next batter bends knee in towards plate as the pitch hits the dirt and hits him in the leg and the ump does not give him first base which was the right call.Now the batter is still hitting so he could have gotten a hit or hit the ball somewhere and Brossart could have made an error or something else but Brossart did catch batters pop up to first to end the game.So ump did not cost Harrison Co. the game. Harrison just did not get hits when they needed them. By the way Harrison Co. fans should be ashamed by the way they acted after the game, show alittle class.

I said before that it was an absolute horrible call but those are the breaks. From a batters standpoint, you can't move out of the way of a curve all. If you do you're going to be made look bad more times then not. That's what hunter did and how any coach would teach it. You follow it in and when it doesn't break u flinch away and let it hit you in the back (or back of the leg in this case).

 

I just feel like the umpire took the game in his own hands when he didn't have to at all and completely effected the outcome. That's too bad. As an official you don't create a controversy on an extreme borderline call at best. That's my opinion at least.