@@oscarwinner2034 thanks Matt. Just entering HS, hopefully he keeps on the upward trend to call this facility his home someday. But for now, keep grinding, getting bigger and stronger. When did you play there? Grass and Dirt for sure!

@@MrFazzino Started there the fall of 1995 played until winter break between 96/97. Transferred to Rowan and played there. Grass dirt for sure. Do they still have the practice infield next to the field? Also was like a 4 mound bullpen and a few cages. Inside we had a few cages in the RAC (basketball stadium) and our locker room was in there too. So we’d march out the complex and over to the RAC in LF. I was in the college of engineering so baseball was tough.

@@oscarwinner2034 I started working at the University (Cook Campus) Sept 1997. They still have the space for the practice diamond next to the field, but it is all overgrown now. The outdoor batting cages are still there down the left field line, along with 2 pitching mounds (bullpen) which is all turfed like the field. In the video, notice the white building beyond the left field fence, the new indoor Fred Hill Training Facility for Baseball and Softball. Has a full size diamond inside and plenty of hitting/pitching tunnels, full turf. Its truly amazing how far the facilities have come since the late 90's.

@@Jery_Odyssey umpire said strike three, not we!!

The other team had comeback to advance to the Tournament Championship game. They are just kids 14U. I don’t have a problem with that. It was a good game, we were up 3 and should have sealed the deal but it happens. No ill will.

@@MrFazzino Yeah, if it's a championship game, celebrate away, and all the more respect to the catcher. That makes the loss that much harder and the class shown that much more.

It was def USA Prime who won: Navy beat Oilers in this one…. Awaiting the rematch! That’s what happens when big box baseball buys up all the smaller teams/organizations!

That was the final game of that tournament for our team with that loss. Never saw the umpire prior to the day before this video and the day of. We return to that venue in a few weeks, who knows if we will see him again.

Smart catcher for moving the bat so it didn’t interfere with his play on the ball for a possible play at the plate. Had a situation earlier in the year with the opposing catcher not clearing the bat, incoming throw hit bat.

That’s a smart play to move the bat - for everyone’s safety and possible interference on the play. It’s also catching 101 - one of the first things you learn as a catcher b

Good to move it…. But bad throwing it onto the field where the ball could hit it or the cut off man could trip on it. Catchers should throw it behind them out of the way.

Batters should throw it out of the way. Catchers action is common. Courtesy

I did miss that the bat went forward towards the mound! Good assessment. Slide it back towards backstop.

Thank You!

@@aidenfazzinow

This was a clean baseball play. Rules state you must slide or avoid malicious contact. Malicious contact supersedes all other rules in the book. But this was a textbook slide, catcher went up for the ball and came down hard. This is the way game was meant to be played.

Per every veteran umpire I've talked to - "A runner that slides low and straight probably hasn't done anything wrong." On a related note, the catcher, classy as he is, was blocking the path of the runner without the ball. No obstruction call correct as 1) the runner was safe anyway, and 2) "no baseball, no call".

@@hankdagenais4157. I agreed with your assessment of obstruction. Throw took him that way into the runners path but I wasn’t referring to any of that or the reason for the post. Just showing the character of the catcher after the play was over. As someone who had umpired for 30 years at all levels, I didn’t think anything of it when a catcher may have come up to me after a game but now I realize the impact that it has and just trying to bring something positive to light in a hard game and especially in this day in age where umpires are only shown in difficult situations.

All good, gotta find the umpires zone and pound it all day. Next outing 5IP 8K not as much of the umpire as you think!