{"id":28946,"date":"2023-02-08T00:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=28946"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:51:59","slug":"you-make-the-call-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2023\/02\/you-make-the-call-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You make the call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball @ashton05cathey @dejaacosta24 @KerlingSarah<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend featured the first games of the year for SOU softball. Maybe some people, including the umpires, were a little bit rusty?<\/p>\n<p>I think I noticed at least five questionable calls and was able to photograph three of them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28948\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6051-RAW-sou-softball-ashton-cathey-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28948\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6051-RAW-sou-softball-ashton-cathey-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball ashton cathey-DeNoiseAI-clear\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashton Cathey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the above play, the runner was called &#8220;safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28949\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6456-RAW-sou-softball-deja-acosta-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28949\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6456-RAW-sou-softball-deja-acosta-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball deja acosta-DeNoiseAI-clear\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deja Acosta<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_28950\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6463-RAW-sou-softball-deja-acosta-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28950\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6463-RAW-sou-softball-deja-acosta-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball deja acosta-DeNoiseAI-clear\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deja Acosta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The hit below was ruled an out because, according to the umpire behind the plate, at the moment of bat-ball contact, the batter was outside the lines of the batter\u2019s box. First of all, by this point in the second game of a doubleheader, the lines of the batter&#8217;s box are mostly gone. Second, the photo below is after the moment of bat-ball contact. She was actually even more in the box when bat-ball contact happened. Finally, how can an umpire behind the plate, who is simultaneously calling balls and strikes, see where a batter&#8217;s feet are at the moment they make contact? Aren&#8217;t they probably looking at the location of the batter&#8217;s feet a second after contact is made at best?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28947\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6570-RAW-sou-softball-sarah-kerling-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28947\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/232_6570-RAW-sou-softball-sarah-kerling-DeNoiseAI-clear.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball sarah kerling-DeNoiseAI-clear\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Kerling<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball @ashton05cathey @dejaacosta24 @KerlingSarah Last weekend featured the first games of the year for SOU softball. Maybe some people, including the umpires, were a little bit rusty? I think I noticed at least five questionable calls and was able to photograph three of them. On the above play, the runner was called &#8220;safe&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[1067,1066,974,995,245,1065,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28980,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions\/28980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}