re: 2 calls at second base today....

yeah, i got you .. i was talking about everyone else earlier with the 7 different conversations about the same thing ... n/m

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Have you ever played baseball? I have never seen a ump yell ball 4. Get over it. Snickeris shouldn't have slid past the bag. Yeh the umpiring was bad BOTH ways. I saw 2 SB batters get called out on check swings that looked like they held up.

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EXACTLY...I was amazed at the check swing calls, that always seemed to go against Stony Brook... i always hear the argument about "consistency" on strike zones, as varied as they are. But I've NEVER seem every check swing universally called a strike like I did today.

The LSU out at 2nd, technically, was a pickoff, AFTER he would have been called safe at 2nd. However, the call went the same weird way as the check swings. And yes, the ref DID seem to be staring for the runner's contact with the base more than usual. But whatever.

Stony Brook is a DAMN GOOD TEAM, capable of winning the SEC...YES, I said it.

Great hitting.

Great pitching.

Good fielding.

Great hitting.

Great hitting.

Let's hope their pitching depth is thin, even though I doubt is as they WON A REGIONAL!

We need bats.

Their coach's teeth look bad.

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i always hear the argument about "consistency" on strike zones, as varied as they are. But I've NEVER seem every check swing universally called a strike like I did today.

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That's the sign of a lazy ump and not something you want on the field when you are playing for your baseball lives.

Just another indication of the type of officiating we have been getting.

I doubt SB's coach even gets dental coverage.

FYI every appeal for help on a check swing is not at the directive of the catcher, umps will appeal when unsure.

I still think you're grasping at straws with the umps needing to be more demonstatuve on those calls. For one the catcher is throwing prior to the call bc if he doesn't he will never throw the runner out. On obvious balls you will see catcher raise up to throw and hold the ball bc he knows it's ball 4. This pitch must have been very close. Also I'm sure you have seen hit and runs fouled off and umps throwing up there arms for the runner and some times runner still slides. In this instance Snickeris would not have known it was a ball until he was 30 ft away from the bag. He likely would have had to slide or risk over running bag and getting tagged out. Bad base running not bad umpiring was what caused that out IMO.

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This pitch must have been very close.

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if i am not mistaken, it was up above the letters or right there .. i though it was clearly high at least

Thanks for the backup on the coach's teeth and Turtle Wax...

As a dentist, may I say I am embarrassed at any member of my profession that placed those restorations on anyone that might come CLOSE to a nationally televised show...

Maybe the umpire should have a remote and he can click different buttons that operate different colored strobe lights at each base to alert the runners of what he called the pitch

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had his foot on the bag

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the homer in me wanted to believe this, but i paused it and admit it could've gone either way.