Baseball Umpiring In High School How To Communicate With Your Partner!

Baseball Umpiring In High School: How To Communicate With Your Partner! For the many who have read my many articles on playing and coaching baseball, hopefully you believe that I have a pretty good understanding of how baseball should and should not be played. At least I hope you feel that way. Now that I have become a certified high school umpire, I have found that I have alot to learn as far as that aspect of baseball is concerned. First of all, a two umpire system is usually used in high school and not a four umpire system like the professionals use.

The communication between you and your partner is critical. You constantly have to give your partner hand signals to make sure you are both on the “same page.” Number of Outs After every out you should point your fingers out to your side signaling the number of outs to your partner. He should then confirm by doing the same. Infield Fly Situation With runners on first and second or the bases loaded and less than two outs, you have to give each other the “heads up” that you are in an infield fly situation.

This can help avoid an embarrassing situation for an umpire. There may be runners on second and third but an umpire may be thinking they are on first and second. If you loved this article and you also would like to obtain more info relating to oferty pracy poznań – http://Forum.Digiyaragh.com/member.php?action=profile&uid=4573, i implore you to visit our web site. It will cause embarrassment if an umpire hollers out “infield fly, batter is out” and it was NOT an infield fly situation. So once again, communication with your partner is critical. In this case, the plate umpire will bring his index finger or his complete hand up to the top of his forehead. Some use a karate chop type of motion to the forehead.

The base umpire will do the same to let him know that he received this signal and is in complete agreement about the situation. The reminder can be given by the plate umpire to the base umpire or the base umpire can sometimes give it to the plate umpire. The Count On The Hitter Occasionally, the plate umpire may lose track of the count on the batter. He desperately needs assistance from his partner. Rather than asking him out loud and letting everyone in attendance know he lost the count, he simply rolls his fists in front of his stomach.

His partner will use his fingers to tell him the count. The left hand is for balls and the right hand is for strikes. So if the base umpire holds up one finger with his left hand and two fingers with his right hand, he is letting the plate umpire know that the count is one ball and two strikes. The plate umpire can occasionally “lose” the count after a ball is fouled off his mask or on a wild pitch where he is looking at baserunners and forgets to click his indicator which is in his left hand.

We Need To Talk Something may have happened during the game and you may need to talk to your partner. It can be dozens of things.