Tennessee Softball 2024

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Vol67 said:
It's called interference which it seems the rule was bent around the corner when applied and not called. Bama and the SEC are dirty
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It's a badly written rule. When Alabama asked for a review, the umps had no choice but to invoke the letter of the law. Hopefully, it will be changed soon. What was annoying was that Mealer didn't, in any meaningful way, stop the third baseperson from getting to the ball. She got there in time to catch it, as did the catcher. They just messed up because they were afraid of falling in the dugout. The missed catch had nothing to do with Mealer. And it was a foul ball. They dropped it. Another strike on the batter. She was still batting. End of discussion. But that's not what the stupid rule says.
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
I am more interested in a DEFINITIVE explanation of the call at 3rd base. A pop up in the infield and a runner legally in the baseline returning directly to a base with a defender blocking her return inches from the bag does not seem logical application of the rule.

Edited to add a screenshot.... also showing our lady in defensive posture and the Bama fielder initiating contact.

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FOLLOWUP trying to get a rules interpretation......

Specifically, softball's interference rule is defined as "an act that denies a defensive player a reasonable opportunity to make a play (field/throw) anywhere on the playing field. The act may be intentional or unintentional and the ball must have been playable."

1) The player did in fact make it to the screen and fully STOP after contact with a teammate and THEREFORE did have a reasonable opportunity to make the play. So just the presence of ANY contact does not justify calling it interference.

2) Is standing at a complete stop at a base in a protective posture an ACT. In the context of sports, is stopping and seeking refuge of a base as a runner an ACTion?

We should have also called for review of OBSTRUCTION!

The obstruction rule in softball states that:
  • It occurs when a fielder impedes the progress of any runner while not in possession of the ball.
  • Blocking any part of the leading edge of bases or home plate is considered obstruction.

SEE screenshot.... The defender did not have the ball and clearly denied with contact our runners attempt to return to her base.

Don't see where runners rights are superceded by defenders rights.
 
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TomHoot said:
It's a badly written rule. When Alabama asked for a review, the umps had no choice but to invoke the letter of the law. Hopefully, it will be changed soon. What was annoying was that Mealer didn't, in any meaningful way, stop the third baseperson from getting to the ball. She got there in time to catch it, as did the catcher. They just messed up because they were afraid of falling in the dugout. The missed catch had nothing to do with Mealer. And it was a foul ball. They dropped it. Another strike on the batter. She was still batting. End of discussion. But that's not what the stupid rule says.
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You could rule that the defender was denied a reasonable opportunity to make the catch, when she had ample time to run till the wall stopped her progress with still enough time after arrival to tangle with the catcher before leaning back into the field of play and missing the ball? Not a rule issue, an interpretation issue. Otherwise known as incidental contact.

Notice her running out of room and actually grasping the wall. Pretty damn reasonable chance to me.....

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TomHoot said:
It's a badly written rule. When Alabama asked for a review, the umps had no choice but to invoke the letter of the law. Hopefully, it will be changed soon. What was annoying was that Mealer didn't, in any meaningful way, stop the third baseperson from getting to the ball. She got there in time to catch it, as did the catcher. They just messed up because they were afraid of falling in the dugout. The missed catch had nothing to do with Mealer. And it was a foul ball. They dropped it. Another strike on the batter. She was still batting. End of discussion. But that's not what the stupid rule says.
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That is what was crazy about the play because 2 players were in the position to catch the ball, more often than not that ball is caught. At that point Murphy was grasping for outs because with the worst defense in the conference I guess that’s how you alleviate some of that.
 
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Early start
TimeVisitorHomeBox
TOP 113 Florida10 GeorgiaBox Score
12:00 PM21 NorthwesternNebraskaBox Score
12:00 PM22 Boston UniversityLafayetteBox Score
1:00 PM15 Virginia TechSyracuseBox Score
2:00 PM2 OklahomaUCFBox Score
2:00 PMIowa State1 TexasBox Score
2:00 PM7 DukeNC StateBox Score
2:00 PMSouth Carolina23 KentuckyBox Score
2:00 PM22 Boston UniversityLafayetteBox Score
2:30 PM21 NorthwesternNebraskaBox Score
3:00 PM20 LouisianaUL MonroeBox Score
3:00 PM25 Texas StateSouthern MissBox Score
4:00 PMNorth Carolina16 Florida StateBox Score
5:00 PM12 Arkansas8 LSUBox Score
6:00 PM6 Stanford11 WashingtonBox Score
7:00 PM3 Tennessee19 AlabamaBox Score
8:00 PM18 Arizona5 UCLABox Score
9:00 PM17 Mississippi State14 MissouriBox Score

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A baserunner cannot be between a fielder and the ball in play. Now if she had actually been touching third base, I believe (not sure) she would have been OK and they would not have called interference. It's a bit of a stretch, but I believe it was the technically correct call.
 
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Looks like Georgia is going to take Florida down today lowering our magic number with them to 3. We win tonight it goes to 2. Hope Georgia can win tomorrow as well and we win they are eliminated and we'll have a two game lead with three to play against A&M. Then it will be time to cheer for a Florida win.
 
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RebKell said:
What is all this talk about KPI? The Florida-Georgia they're talking about this.

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They talked about it during the tennessee game last night & from my understanding it’s like rpi in a way but it takes into consideration opponent win %, opponent SOS, point differential, & match location. The biggest difference from what i read is that it takes into consideration the margin of victory & match location. A lot of different sports use it now & apparently it is accurate. The top 8 in order in the KPI is Oklahoma, Texas, Tennessee, Duke, Stanford, OSU, Ucla, & A&M. I would say that aside from duke most people would agree those are the top 8 teams right now.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
Looks like Georgia is going to take Florida down today lowering our magic number with them to 3. We win tonight it goes to 2. Hope Georgia can win tomorrow as well and we win they are eliminated and we'll have a two game lead with three to play against A&M. Then it will be time to cheer for a Florida win.
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Maybe, a wild game so far.
 
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TEAM1234567RHEL
UF00040116716
UGA010271X111203

On Mound: #99 Backes [L] 2.41ERA1.10WHIP
TODAYIPHRERBBK2B3BHRBFPC
77664400333136

Scoring Summary
TeamInnScoring Dec.PlayBatterPitcherOuts
Bot 23B LL 1RBIKuma tripled down the lf line, RBI (2-0 BB); Mosley scored.KumaA. Brown0
Top 4HR 7 4RBIKowalewski homered to left center, 4 RBI (2-1 KBB); Goddard scored; Erickson scored; Wallace scored.KowalewskiBackes2
Bot 4HR 7 2RBIKuma homered to left field, 2 RBI (0-0); Mosley scored, unearned.KumaA. Brown0
Bot 5HR 9 3RBIKearney homered to right center, 3 RBI (0-1 K); Goodwin scored; Armistead, E scored.KearneyA. Brown1
Bot 5HR 7 1RBIMosley homered to left field, RBI (2-0 BB).MosleyA. Brown1
Bot 5HR 7 2RBIFields homered to left field, 2 RBI (1-0 B); Kuma scored.FieldsWooten1
Bot 51B RL 1RBIArmistead, E singled down the rf line, RBI (0-0); Eaton scored.Armistead, EO. Miller2
Top 6HR 8 1RBIA. Brown homered to center field, RBI (2-1 KBB).A. BrownBackes1
Bot 6HR 7 1RBIMosley homered to left field, RBI (1-0 B).MosleyO. Miller2
Top 7HR 7 1RBIOtis homered to left center, RBI (3-1 BBBK).OtisBackes0
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
I am more interested in a DEFINITIVE explanation of the call at 3rd base. A pop up in the infield and a runner legally in the baseline returning directly to a base with a defender blocking her return inches from the bag does not seem logical application of the rule.

Edited to add a screenshot.... also showing our lady in defensive posture and the Bama fielder initiating contact.

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Where exactly is Mealer supposed to go? She can't disappear. And both Bama players botched that catch.
 
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UT Line Up
SpotPos# PlayerBatsAvg
1cf9 Kiki MilloyR.364
2dp11 Zaida PuniR.298
33b24 McKenna GibsonR.353
4lf5 Rylie WestR.346
5c7 Sophia NugentR.277
6rf3 Taylor PannellR.291
72b34 Destiny RodriguezR.250
81b27 G. KoutsoyanopulosR.278
9ss2 Laura MealerR.298
10p23 Karlyn PickensR-

Tennessee Starting Pitcher
#23 Karlyn Pickens
THROWSERAWHIPLEADOFF
R1.120.80.271
SEASONW-LSIPHRERBBK2B3BHR
16-51131.1722521331611226

Alabama Starting Pitcher
#23 Jocelyn Briski
THROWSERAWHIPLEADOFF
R2.721.24.309
SEASONW-LSIPHRERBBK2B3BHR
7-2056.25127221952406
 
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