Five Ways to Tell when Baseball Players Are Upset with the Umpire
2- Observe the batter after a strike is called that you think perhaps was a ball. If the hitter isn't enamored with the strike call he may slump his shoulders or take a walk away from the batter's box. In extreme cases he may actually turn to the umpire and say something, which can quickly escalate into an argument that he won't win since you can't argue balls and strikes.
3- On plays where a runner is caught stealing you can tell if he agrees with the call by the way he leaves the base. If the runner was clearly out he will be off to the dugout in a hurry. If he disagrees with the call he will linger at the base and be much more animated. Many caught stealing plays end innings, meaning the telecast goes right into a commercial, but you will have a couple of seconds to watch what the runner is doing around the base.
4- See if a pitcher starts to head to the dugout when he thinks he has struck a batter out for the third out. Nothing upsets an umpire more than this, but few things get a pitcher's goat more than thinking the umpire blew a called third strike. If the pitcher takes a step towards the dugout it means he absolutely felt the pitch was there.
5- Look for managers to wait for umpires to come and break up meetings on the pitcher's mound. After what a manager perceives as a bad call or even a series of missed strikes for his pitcher they will often deliberately take a long time when out on the mound talking to the pitcher, waiting for the umpire to come out to move the game along. Then he will give the ump a piece of his mind. These too can lead to ejections if the skipper utters the wrong word.
Published by Carl Kolchak
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Post a CommentAt age 10, I discovered that Little League umpires do not like kids yelling, "You're crazy!" even when they DO call a pitch WAY low and outside Strike 3 instead of Ball 4 :).