I understand no ump wants to be the first one to call that on the catcher, but they are making a joke out of the rule. If I was a catcher I'd camp right in front of the plate until someone figured out it's going to take collisions to be safe. The thing I hate about it is if Hos runs him over there, I think Hos gets called out even if he drops the ball. They have made the catcher as sacred as an NFL quarterback, the baserunner has no options except to run around from behind and hope the throw isn't there.

Well, should have had a run there....think the Umps got it wrong

Ah, I forgot Balkin' Bob was there!

I can hear Hud, so it sucks in that way. But it makes me want to have your Avatar sit on may face for some reason...

I'm running the catcher over next time.


straight down the baseline ... if he's in my way, i truck him

I'll take a nice 7 pitch inning here

Well he won't block the plate next time.

I'm guessing, given a cool evening, Ace has 1-2 innings left. Hasn't had very good control tonight. Amazing how effective he is, even with marginal control.

What they aren't asking is more important, if Hos plows him, what happens?

I don't have the rule in front of me, but I can't see any way you can penalize a guy for going straight to the plate. If the catcher's in the way...well, sucks to be him. It's up to the catcher to be out of the way, straddle the plate, sweep tag, whatever. I mean, 2B and SS do it all the time on steal attempts.

NICE INNING

Basically, after all that jabber-jawing, it's "the umpire gets to make any call he feels like"!

There you go Ace

Cannot wait!

Got my tix for Monday and Wednesday for Royals/Padres. Ventura and Shields!

NO RAINOUTS BETWEEN NOW AND MONDAY PLEASE! :)

he is just out as far as i know


I'm sure if a player starts making a habit of running over catchers they will look to some kind of penalty.