UMPIRES
Q: We have an umpiring crew that seems to forget its responsibilities. Quite
often, they'll call a play in favor of the team that's behind or for the
player who never makes a play but finally nearly makes one (but not quite).
What do you do?
A: Unfortunately, there's not much you can do. Hopefully, your league
officials are paying attention because balancing the score or outcomes is not
the umpires duty. Serious umpires will agree. When I coached a team thatwas
still coming along, we were the "beneficiaries" of some of these calls andI
asked the umpire not to call them that way because it confuses the players.
Not only that, there are normally two players at the center of these plays.
When you award an unearned call to one player, you deny an earned call to the
other player. I can not think of the scenario where this is justified. When
it comes to evening things out in a lopsided game, that's the responsibility
of the coaches.
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