Brady Hood

I suppose IF a player touched a batted ball with detached equipment and the ball deflected in to dead ball territory, then that would be a 3 base award…but I that is probably getting into semantics at that point.

For me, if I am behind the plate, It would need to be obvious for me to call that. If it is a 50/50 ball though on the edge of the zone, Im calling it a strike 100% of the time, not on the checked swing but on the pitch. They need to be swinging. Base umpires have the better angle on checked swings. When i am working bases, A is the best to be picky. I look at the angle of the bat, if it comes past perpendicular to the line, he went. B and C it’s tough cause the angle, so unless even his mother knew he went, im not calling it.

The umpires should immediately call the trail runner out when that runner is tagged.  Shouldn’t be any amount of sorting out needed, unless the coaches want to complain about it.

Yup, and this can only occur if there are runners on base. If it happens with no one on, it is just ignored.

The pop up slide is legal, but if the runner interferes (not necessarily physical contact) with the fielders ability to make the play, that is interference. Intent in high school does not matter like it does in MLB.

There are teams and coaches who don’t understand the old rule, let alone adding this confusion. I guess it’ll help keep the best bats in the game, but I don’t know. As soon as the player is substituted for offensively it will kill the P/DH, so at the beginning of the season I think there will be alot of confusion when they do that. Time will tell.