Sentences with phrase «on umpire»

These analyse the signals from the antennas and feed the data to both a voice synthesiser — that announces when the ball is out — and a hand - held computer on the umpire's chair.

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.

«The Office of the Commissioner has failed to address this and other escalating attacks on umpires.

Not exact matches

It is unfortunate that a World Seriesn't game had to end on an obstruction call but the umpire got the call absolutely correct.

As umpire John Hirschbeck himself explained in an interview after the controversial game — the only World Series contest ever to end on an obstruction call — intent does not matter:

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

Steve P. can't even decide on what god to honor and yet he sits in judgment of the umpires of baseball!!!

Instead of tossing a few warm - up pitches, Marshall devoted these leisure moments to declaiming on the vulgarity of Oakland spectators to Buckner and the umpires.

Either forgetting or remembering that the mike is turned on, Reggie turns to the umpire and, fearful of being walked, orders room service: «Call the next one a strike, no matter where it is.»

I don't want faceless umpires in New York to have the power to say, «Ehhhhh, that was within the spirit of the law, I guess» in different games, with their varied decisions hinging on how much caffeine or sleep they've had.

You come on a field and see who the umpires are, and you say to yourself, «Oh, no, not them.»

He's funny without being childish, gets down on himself without expressing his temper as outwardly as you would expect a teenager to on the court (with the exception of an embarrassing and impulsive display earlier this year that left a chair umpire injured, which he publicly apologized for) and would be just as believable as a teenager whose family pushed him into male modeling, or a loafing next door neighbor who mows your lawn.

The strike zone of home plate umpire Bill Miller drew the ire of batters in Minute Maid Park and fans on social media.

So, what the umpire said went as the call on the field, and McClelland eventually got to calling Matt Holliday safe for his slide into home plate in extra innings.

He challenged umpires nose - to - nose whenever he was called out on strikes and kicked dirt every time he made an error.

Then early in the second set Emerson dashed in for a drop volley and slipped on the wet grass, skidded 15 feet, crashed into the umpire's chair and brought the microphone down on himself.

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.

But the umpire's flag was already on the ground.

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.

«Frank Thomas is the worst one for that, and umpires won't call inside strikes on him.»

As Harrah stood on first, Home Plate Umpire Terry Cooney fielded Harrah's bat, a Louisville Slugger C243 that features a thin handle and a big barrel.

Matches on all other courts were put on hold, but Williams was in the middle of a major rally, and the chair umpire decided to let the match go on, despite the players» clear trepidation over the condition of the court.

On Monday, it appeared that should a seventh mound visit be attempted by teams this season — exceeding the newly imposed limit of six — the visit would just be disallowed by the umpire.

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.

«In my heart, I thought he left too soon,» umpire Tim McClelland said after calling the Yankees» Nick Swisher out for leaving the bag early on a sac fly.

Don Wilson, Roberts's reliever, off whom Aaron had hit his 611th home run, said later that as he stood on the mound it crossed his mind just to keep on warming up indefinitely, shaking his head and saying, «No, not yet,» to the umpire until the night fell and the moon came up, and perhaps at 10:30 the next morning some sort of statute of limitations would run out the season and he would be able to pack up and go home, sore - armed but assuaged.

The next presentiment that the pitcher had to deal with was the flurry of activity from the umpires as Aaron left the on - deck circle and approached the plate.

A full complement of 68 umpires already is on staff, and the commissioner's office hasn't discussed how more would fit in.

OK, fine, he gets a half - strikeout credit for both Davis and Trumbo, and four of the strikeouts were looking, which hints that it's February for umpires, too, BUT, I was already thinking that Glasnow was on a very short list for Rookie of the Year candidates.

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.

-- Since 2005, simply betting $ 100 on the under in every game that Bill Miller has umpired would have resulted in a $ 4,138 profit.

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

Different parts of the brain process different sensory inputs; adding visual info through AR risks overload the visual processing (the tendency will be to filter out one or the other input, so umpires will eventually use only the AR overlay and ignore what they're actually seeing, or use only what they're seeing and ignore the AR overlay), while adding haptic input calls on a different part of the brain to process the information in conjunction with the visual input.

Glasnow shouldn't be at the whim of the umpire who doesn't feel like he has «earned» those calls on the edges.

Joe has upheld the rules of fair play for more than 5,000 Major League Baseball games, and is on his way to the record for most career games ever worked by an MLB umpire.

There are a number of umps who tend to favor pitchers on borderline calls and my hypothesis was that Phil Cuzzi, Ron Kulpa, Bill Miller, Ted Barret and Doug Eddings — who are renowned for having the largest strike zones in baseball — would be among the most profitable umpires for betting unders.

In the USA Today piece, West noted that he and Beltre are on OK terms at this point, so it doesn't look like the umpire will have to deal with any bad blood there on top of the suspension.

Bill Miller has been by far the most profitable umpire for betting unders, as simply betting $ 100 on the under in every game he has officiated since 2005 would have resulted in a $ 4,138 profit.

During the Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles Angels game on Monday night, the home plate umpire took a shot right to the...

The child's mom spoke with MLB.com, and let everyone know the umpire was in on this.

Eventually coaches are selected, umpires signed and teams picked by parents in a draft, not by kids hand over hand on a bat handle.

The umpires judged that the play wasn't a double play in progress so the Red Sox received no outs on the play.

Furthermore, either the umpires or coaches can initiate a video review, which does not take place on - site.

Czech officials grew so enraged that on Friday they ordered the umpire not to introduce Navratilova by name.

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He knocked himself out of the Yankees» game with the Florida Marlins on June 14 after arguing with plate umpire Greg Bonin.

More importantly for White Sox fans, though, in a 2005 regular season game, Rodriguez would have spent 10 minutes arguing with home plate umpire Doug Eddings that he should be awarded first on a catcher's interference call.

The Washington, Penn. native and umpire Roy Ellison will each be relative newcomers on a well - traveled staff.

He misses riding to the games on a motorcycle, and he misses managing and umpiring and the feeling that Little League gave him, the sense that in a life of drift he somehow belonged.

The calculus of Bonds's season is much clearer than the chemistry: Umpires had dared call a strike on 58 of those first 444 pitches to Bonds, or an average of once every two times he came to the plate.