Baseball Rule Violations

[jkumpire]

PP,

You familiar with the term "OOO" in officiating circles?

Drop me a PM.

[Charlie hustle]

You want to make a coach mad, call the balk on the pitcher takking sings while off the rubber. I call it every time, and I get every excuse in the book, from scratching an itch to positioning the fielders (while he's down in a crouch, with his hand between his legs).

What does sings mean?

[jervin]

The infield fly rule can also be a judgement call. If the ball is in the shallow outfield grass and one of the infielders is camped underneath, umpires may still call the INF rule, but it is a judgement call,

[jkumpire]

Jervin,

You are quite right, though most of the time INF is a blatenly obvious call if you understand the purpose of the rule, to protect the offense from losing two outs on a play they only lose one out on.

[jervin]

I agree with the rule, I was just making the statement that when the ball is out of the infield dirt, INF can still be called. no disagreement here.