Umpire loses track of outs (answered)
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 10:24 am
Had an interesting situation last week. During my son's rec league game, that I was scoring, the umpire (and the opposing team's scorer, too, apparently) lost track of the number of outs.
We were hitting, and had multiple runs, there was a pitching change, and several other complicating factors. One of our players struck out, and I said "that's three outs" (as verified by the app). The umpire says he has 2 outs, looks around, nobody else claims 3 outs, and our at bat continues.
Since the app correctly had 3 outs, it advanced to the next half inning. I had to scramble to find a way to get back to our at bat, with two outs. I did a quick game adjustment, which just advanced it to our next at bat inning, and after the fourth out, I manually ended the inning. So the score book ended up being off by one inning. Wondering if there was a more better way to handle the situation.
We were hitting, and had multiple runs, there was a pitching change, and several other complicating factors. One of our players struck out, and I said "that's three outs" (as verified by the app). The umpire says he has 2 outs, looks around, nobody else claims 3 outs, and our at bat continues.
Since the app correctly had 3 outs, it advanced to the next half inning. I had to scramble to find a way to get back to our at bat, with two outs. I did a quick game adjustment, which just advanced it to our next at bat inning, and after the fourth out, I manually ended the inning. So the score book ended up being off by one inning. Wondering if there was a more better way to handle the situation.