Umpiring Baseball

After spending time getting the roles taken care of for my Sollen work. I went to Logan’s baseball game. I got there before the game started. Jon was doing some warm ups with the kids on the team.

Jon got me to be the home plate umpire. It is weird rules. They use a hand operated pitching machine. They get ten pitches or four strikes where there was a swing and a miss or a foul ball. The coach had me be very lenient. So we would ignore strikes if the pitch was really bad. So some kids got five and six strikes. They can score up to four runs an inning then it is over.

So I had to keep track of pitch count, strikes, and runs scored. It really wasn’t all that hard. It was interesting being a homeplate umpire when you don’t actually have to call strikes. You only have to observe them happening.

I went home when that was done and we had hamburgers for dinner. I watched Southpark and I tried to watch one more show but I fell asleep.