Team Loses Championship After Uncaught Third Strike Due to Premature Celebration

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Жыл бұрын

The Pal-Mac Red Raiders ran the bases to score the tying and winning runs to earn a walk-off New York V-BI championship win over Hornell after an umpire ruled that Hornell's catcher failed to tag the batter-runner following an uncaught third strike with two outs in the final inning of play. Article: www.closecallsports.com/2023/...
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With two out and two on in a 5-4 game in the bottom of the 7th inning (NFHS/high school plays seven inning regulation games as opposed to nine), the home team's batter struck out looking. The visiting catcher, however, dropped the ball and the batter became a runner, advancing to first base on the uncaught third strike as the catcher scooped up the ball and lunged toward the batter-runner.
Instead of waiting for the home plate umpire's confirmation of a tag having occurred, the catcher went to celebrate with his team, the umpire giving a "safe" signal, the home team went on to score the tying and winning runs as the visitors celebrated in the infield a win that didn't actually happen.

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@SirForepaugh Жыл бұрын

For a high school championship, this is pretty terrible baseball

@alcoraces Жыл бұрын

The placing of the baseball into his back pocket by the catcher adds another element to this play too.

@binder38us Жыл бұрын

This has nothing to do with umps, the catcher should have tossed it to first anyway. Just to be sure.

@johnathanconrad5363 Жыл бұрын

“Big and long like I like them to be” f-ing classic!

@PapaVanTwee5 Жыл бұрын

I love your channel, but you owe me a new keyboard after the "not big and long the way I like things to be" line at the end. (I know... I'm a 12 year old 53 year old.)

@johntodd6055 Жыл бұрын

catcher blew it

@timetowakeup7394 Жыл бұрын

This will be a game that the Red Raiders will remember.

@evankirk5937 Жыл бұрын

Lindsey, please address the catcher putting the ball in his pocket.

@rj7411 Жыл бұрын

HS baseball. Young men who turn into 'lil boys at the darndest times. Umpires never know what you are going to get. Expect feats of wonder and skill. Expect weirdness and confusion. And then Lindsay adds her sublime wit at the end, bada boom! Love this channel.

@michaelfera5515 Жыл бұрын

Catcher was looking right at the umpire's safe signal.

@timpmurph71 Жыл бұрын

Second baseman is gonna be seething over this for the rest of his life. Only one on the field who knew what was going on.

@louisbelmont1690 Жыл бұрын

Like Yogi said, it ain’t over till it’s over. Congratulations to the Pal-Mac kids on being very heads up and congratulations to Coach Rodman on his first sectional championship victory

@patron40silver Жыл бұрын

The catcher saw the umpires safe call. Just after the

@chrishasenpflug Жыл бұрын

I didn't notice this initially, but when 2B went running to catcher to find the ball, at

@halah34 Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, my mom was a softball coach. One of her biggest rules was to have the catcher tag the batter after a third strike, no matter what.

@KathleenMiles-uf4bk Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Great job by CloseCallSports. Terrible call on the third strike, clearly a ball, but all the errors made by Hornell show that, even before the dropped 3rd-strike blunder, the players blew it many times.

@drizzle452 Жыл бұрын

I just don’t understand what the catcher was thinking. He even looked back for confirmation and then decided to ignore the information given to him…I hope he gets over it though. What’s done cannot be undone

@user-eg1ps2vt3m Жыл бұрын

Not only was the call valid, the catcher should have kept a more heads up approach until he heard the umpire call for the end of the game. I know not hearing that while base running has helped my team take the lead or at least stay in the game for the time being.