Sentences with phrase «umpire does»

In baseball, the home plate umpire does give the home pitcher the benefit of the doubt on close pitches.

Baseball has several such situations where the umpire does not make a call unless the defending team asks him.

American League umpires don't take pride in their work.

But if the umpire didn't see that split - second separation from the white square, then neither did we.

Had the umpire done his homework, Tony Gwynn would never have been ejected in his ninth game as coach at San Diego State (SCORECARD, March 3).

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.

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.

Umpires don't make decisions about who gets prosecuted, what witnesses are called and how a case proceeds.

«Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them,» John Roberts told the Judiciary Committee of the Senate after listening to senators make 21 speeches about this week's confirmation hearings on his appointment by President Bush to be the next Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Umpires don't do this consciously.

Not exact matches

The Pope is basically just like an Umpire in a Baseball game — he keeps the game going and indicates what's in play or not, by the written rule book — but does not change the rules of the game — that's set.

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:

Stick to religion Stephen, you don't know baseball or umpiring.

I don't know a single umpire who would have not called that, and I would have absolutely called it in that situation.

It seems to me that there is an interesting relationship between Reality and Authority expressed in umpiring - is the ump a book - keeper, simply recording what already exists, or does he frame the events to create reality?

I've umpired for 10 + years from doing everything from little league to JUCO, as well as having attended Evan's Florida school and taught multiple clinics for local officials.

«If Hawthorn, currently a strong team for those unfortunate people who do not follow AFL, were playing Melbourne, currently not so strong, the umpire would never seek to step in to avoid the obvious outcome.

Either an umpire sees it, or he doesn't.

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.

And although chair umpires are supposed to monitor the seconds, it has not been done uniformly, in part because there is not a readout available for players and spectators to see.

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.

Texas does not like playing in Edinburg, where the fans are hostile and even the umpires sometimes so.

But that play doesn't bother Revis, because he ran into the umpire.

Umpires and hitters don't want the grief involved in retraining their judgment of what is a ball and a strike.

He virtually ignores the inside pitch, knowing the umpire is not likely to call one a strike and the pitcher doesn't want to risk inciting a brawl or give up a home run by throwing one.

The strike zone also changes with the umpire, and although I don't advocate cheating, a pitcher has to take everything he has coming to him.

Man, the umpire really does not seem to know where Aaron Judge's knees are, and it helped contribute to yet another strikeout.

Baseball has not said how the new - old umpires would be folded back into major league service, if and when they do become eligible to return.

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

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.

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

These umpires lack nuance, and they don't care.

Or do you prefer the umpires who really try to figure out what's intentional and what isn't?

Which brings us to the open - ended question at the end of an article: Do you prefer the umpires who don't like to think critically after issuing a warning, tossing pitchers and managers after the next HBP, regardless of the game situatioDo you prefer the umpires who don't like to think critically after issuing a warning, tossing pitchers and managers after the next HBP, regardless of the game situation?

No one was happy with home - plate umpire Jim Wolf, who a) issued a warning for the first Donaldson HBP, b) didn't eject anyone after Donaldson got buzzed with a nostril - high pitch, c) didn't eject anyone when Troy Tulowitzki was hit with a pitch in the seventh, d) didn't eject anyone when Donaldson was buzzed again that inning, and e) ejected Aaron Sanchez in the eighth after the first Royals HBP of the game.

While it is true that you don't want to see players just walking all over umpires, there's a better way to do that than giving a player the quick hook — especially when the player didn't verbally argue balls and strikes.

But that doesn't mean you, or the aspiring umpire you love, shouldn't dress for the part!

The way that Cutch moped around through slumps and never was overly vocal, coupled with the way that Cole always seemed ticked off at umpires, his defense and the umpires, the team over the last two seasons didn't seem to have a leader on the field.

This will make a whole bunch of fans happy, but there is another side to a forced change like this, as well: adjusting to an umpire's specific zone, whether it's a pitcher or a lineup that does it, is part of the strategy of the game.

At this stage, there's no word on just what those changes will be, but we know why they want to do it, thanks to Jon Morosi: the technology listed above is out there and is now part of how we watch the game, and MLB wants their umpires to adhere more closely to what everyone else is seeing.

Gallaraga saved that MLB a lot of trouble that might have endured if fans and players began questioning the integrity of umpires and not understanding why baseball is the only sport that doesn't use instant replay.

We certainly can't blame her for doing her best John McEnroe impression after umpire makes bade call.

If you do it early, the guy will complain and call for an umpire.

«We certainly don't want umpires and lifeguards and kids in a supervisory position to... jeopardize anybody in the park district programs and that was our main concern, the safety of the children,» said Naperville Park District Commissioner Ron Ory.

Failure of the pitch count recorder to notify the umpire - in - chief, and / or the failure of the umpire - in - chief to notify the manager does not relief the manager of his / her responsibility to remove the pitcher when that pitcher is no longer eligible to pitch.

In the Republican debate of 30 January 2008 Huckabee said that, «-LSB-...] I didn't come here to umpire a ball game between these two.

Defending champion Roger Federer argued with an umpire, but mostly let his racket do the talking, beating Tomas Berdych for the ninth time running to reach the Australian Open semi-finals on Wednesday.

Am a printer, sales rep for printing as main job, and do official's work on the side as an umpire or...

Executive producer Allen Covert reprises his forgetful 50 First Dates character (one of a number of callbacks / homages to past Happy Madison farces) and Jonathan Loughran does his cross-eyed bit in a blink - and - miss appearance as an umpire.

If you're intrigued by the lives of umpires (I am — do they ever get hate mail?)