Sentences with phrase «base umpire»

Seconds before the Boston Red Sox's Greg Harris delivered a pitch to Yankee batter Mike Stanley, with two outs in the ninth and the Sox leading 3 - 1, third base umpire Tim Welke spotted the boy running onto the field.

It was treated as a live ball, however, and he's out at first since that kind of play isn't reviewable, and an appeal to the third base umpire didn't change the call.

That brought out Cards skipper Dan McDonnell to argue vociferously with the second base umpire, who promptly tossed Louisville's head man — the first such coaching ejection in the CWS since 2007.

That means that the second base umpire will work first base the following day and home plate the day after that.

After a foul ball off the bat of Oakland A's Stephen Vogt hit first - base umpire Joe West, the 31 - year - old veteran showed off his guns.

Second base umpire Dusty Boggess intercepted the skipper and informed him that Throneberry hadn't touched second base, either.

The runner from first simply fields the ball and tosses it to the second base umpire.

Second base umpire Mike Reilly gave the «safe» sign as if he were winding up a soft - shoe routine.

But the Tigers had called a pitchout, and Fahey, the supposed pigeon, threw Henderson out at second — at least in the opinion of second base umpire Durwood Merrill.

Third base umpire Quinn Wolcott put up the protective gear to take over behind the plate in relief of Emmel.

Not exact matches

Using PITCHf / x, a three - camera system designed by Chicago - based Sportvision, the league was able to fully replicate human umpires — with accurate results.

If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball or a fielder in the act of fielding a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead

It had just started to drizzle in Baltimore when Umpire Frank Umont called for the tarpaulin, but a spectacularly shoddy performance by the Orioles» ground crew left the first - base line uncovered during the ensuing cloudburst and forced the game to be canceled.

Well, really, the umpire paused because he didn't know what happened: he wouldn't call Holliday safe for another three or four seconds after the play, and you can tell based on that pause that he made his decision solely based on the ball being loose and Barrett scrambling for it since there had not yet been a call.

If the umpire saw the runner miss the base, he will call him out.

A. Nine: hit, walk, error, forceout, fielder's choice (when the man on base is not forced out or not retired), hit by pitched ball, interference by catcher or other member of fielding team, missed third strike, and batted fair ball hitting a runner or umpire before it is touched by a fielder.

Many years ago, when Max was working a game in the Pacific Coast League, umpire Bruce Froemming, who's now in the National League, gave a starter's pistol to the third base ump, who shot Max while he was arguing.

«If, in the judgment of the umpire, a base runner willfully and deliberately interferes with a batted ball with the obvious intent to break up a double play, the ball is dead, the umpire shall call the runner out for interference and also call out the following runner because of the action of his teammate.

The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

But when Herzog and the rest of the Cards ranted on about the ninth - inning bad call at first base costing them Game 6 — the St. Louis Post-Dispatch chimed in by calling AL umpire Don Denkinger «Jesse James» — it was as if no umpire in World Series history had ever missed one before.

Rule 6.02 (d) Comment: Umpires shall encourage the on - deck batter to take a position in the batter's box quickly after the previous batter reaches base or is put out.

He was a vocal manager, known to argue with umpires, and even toss bases after being ejected.

Two weeks ago in Baltimore, Rader tore into the umpires when third base ump Jim Joyce ruled that a fly ball hit down the leftfield line by the Orioles» Mike Devereaux was fair, a two - run homer that decided the game.

At first base, he accepted the congratulations of Coach Ron Plaza, Umpire Joe West and Met First Baseman Willie Montanez.

Twins first baseman Kent Hrbek wrestled him off the base and applied the tag, and umpire Drew Coble called Gant out.

Sober, industrious and otherwise well - adjusted men have been known to fall into gargling, sputtering rages as, sitting helplessly before their TV sets, they feel themselves assaulted by Allen's tedious, drawn - out explanations («For the benefit of those not so familiar with the game, the infield fly rule states that, with first and second base or first, second and third occupied and less than two out, a ball which in the judgment of the umpire,» etc..

If a player jumps on the umpire's back and rides him around the bases like a pony, everyone would agree that's too much.

Mr. Abunde said, the» umpire body stated that it has no power to nullify the election of the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange on the basis of last November ruling of the Federal High Court which ordered it to restore the suppressed Mbagwa constituency.

Clearly, the umpire could employ a random source based on coin tosses to decide the timing of inspections, but this might be time - consuming.

In a 1978 decision, for instance, the Court of Appeal of Florence refused to enforce an award rendered in England by only two arbitrators, who had declined to appoint a third arbitrator on the basis of the 1950 English Arbitration Act, pursuant to which a clause providing for a three - member tribunal was deemed to take effect as if it provided for an umpire.

Prominently featured in the LTN piece was Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf, who last February launched the blog Hercules and the Umpire and quickly found notoriety when he published a post in which he declared, «A lot of what the Supreme Court does is simply irrelevant to what federal trial judges do on a daily basis.»

In most cases, when a neutral, independent umpire renders a decision based on the contract and the evidence submitted by both parties, it allows the parties to put that issue behind them and move on with the project, even if they are not completely happy with the result.

This clarification is needed more now that this government saw fit in its omnibus Bill C - 38 to eliminate the regional Employment Insurance boards of referees and umpires and to replace them with an Ottawa - based tribunal.