Ok, which one of you baseball Umps was this?

ricepig · May 11, 2016, 02:00:25 pm

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2639434-umpire-appears-to-cover-home-plate-with-dirt-waits-to-see-if-runner-touches-it

arreferee · May 12, 2016, 09:02:57 am

If you read through the comments, there are some that give pretty good reasons for what he did. One was to show the home plate umpire that he was covering home while the plate umpire had to cover third...having his back. The other was to prove to the opposing coach that the player actually touched home plate. Maybe there was some controversy earlier in the game about a similar situation.

I'm not a baseball umpire. Are there any on here that can verify these reasons?

ricepig · May 12, 2016, 09:31:05 am

Quote from: arreferee on May 12, 2016, 09:02:57 am
If you read through the comments, there are some that give pretty good reasons for what he did. One was to show the home plate umpire that he was covering home while the plate umpire had to cover third...having his back. The other was to prove to the opposing coach that the player actually touched home plate. Maybe there was some controversy earlier in the game about a similar situation.

I'm not a baseball umpire. Are there any on here that can verify these reasons?

You have to admit, it was quite unusual. I've watched a lot of high school baseball over the years, I've never seen anything like that.