How to Be a Home Plate Umpire

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I'm going to show you what a home place umpire has to be, what he has to do and the things he go through during the course of the game. The first thing you got to do; get behind the plate, call a play in, play ball. Now it's your job, get in position, right straight over the catcher's head. So, you can see both sides of the plate without moving. You got a nice peripheral vision of home plate there. Now, stay in position, you make your call. Now, the ball's hit. The home plate umpire when he's the only umpire has to get into position. Now, while you're the only guy, you've got to run into position for the first base and that's here. There's your first base home. If then he's going to second, turn, run into the second position, see that place. But, error on the play, the guys going to third cross. So, now he's going into third. And then if he comes home, you've got to come into it. At home, he gets in a run down. You've got to go back and forth, make sure, you get to tag if he touches him. If he doesn't touch him, you go in. He's in there. Safe run. I win. So, if you decide you want to go into umpiring, well first of all, before the season starts, get yourself in shape. You really have to use it."