2024 USA Softball Umpire Exam Questions
1. Compression Testing: Testing to ensure a bat meets required specifications.
2. Obstruction: An act by an offensive team member that impedes, hinders, or
confuses a defensive player.
3. Fair Ball: A batted ball that bounds or rolls past first or third base on or over
foul territory then next touches in fair territory.
4. Pitching Distance: The distance from the pitcher's plate to home plate.
5. Back Stop: A structure located a minimum of 20 feet and a maximum of 25 feet
from home plate.
6. Pitcher's Plate: A plate made of rubber or wood, 24 inches long and 6 inches
wide, located at the prescribed pitching distance from the back point of home
plate.
7. Legal Bat: A bat with 'Official Softball' on the barrel and either the ASA or USA
certification mark.
8. Grip: The part of the bat handle not less than 6 inches and not more than 8
inches from the knob.
9. Shoe Sole: Made of either canvas or leather uppers or similar material.
10. Defensive Conference: Each team has the right to one defensive
conference per inning.
11. Forfeited Game: If a team does not have enough players after a player is
ejected, the game is forfeited.
12. Run Scoring: A run scores if the third out is recorded on a runner forced out
due to the batter becoming a batter-runner.
13. Sign Language Interpreter: Allowed in the dugout and on the field of play,
required to pass a background check in JO games.
14. Regulation Game: A game that is not considered regulation or stopped at a
National Championship shall be resumed at the exact point where it was
stopped.
15. Batter's Box: The area where the batter must remain while the pitcher is
taking the signal or in position to pitch.
16. Assisting Runner: A runner is out when they physically pass a preceding
runner before that runner has been called out.
17. Obstructed Runner: Protected until they reach the base which would have
been reached had there been no obstruction.
18. No Pitch: Declared when a pitch is delivered before a runner has retouched
their base after being legitimately off that base.
1. Compression Testing: Testing to ensure a bat meets required specifications.
2. Obstruction: An act by an offensive team member that impedes, hinders, or
confuses a defensive player.
3. Fair Ball: A batted ball that bounds or rolls past first or third base on or over
foul territory then next touches in fair territory.
4. Pitching Distance: The distance from the pitcher's plate to home plate.
5. Back Stop: A structure located a minimum of 20 feet and a maximum of 25 feet
from home plate.
6. Pitcher's Plate: A plate made of rubber or wood, 24 inches long and 6 inches
wide, located at the prescribed pitching distance from the back point of home
plate.
7. Legal Bat: A bat with 'Official Softball' on the barrel and either the ASA or USA
certification mark.
8. Grip: The part of the bat handle not less than 6 inches and not more than 8
inches from the knob.
9. Shoe Sole: Made of either canvas or leather uppers or similar material.
10. Defensive Conference: Each team has the right to one defensive
conference per inning.
11. Forfeited Game: If a team does not have enough players after a player is
ejected, the game is forfeited.
12. Run Scoring: A run scores if the third out is recorded on a runner forced out
due to the batter becoming a batter-runner.
13. Sign Language Interpreter: Allowed in the dugout and on the field of play,
required to pass a background check in JO games.
14. Regulation Game: A game that is not considered regulation or stopped at a
National Championship shall be resumed at the exact point where it was
stopped.
15. Batter's Box: The area where the batter must remain while the pitcher is
taking the signal or in position to pitch.
16. Assisting Runner: A runner is out when they physically pass a preceding
runner before that runner has been called out.
17. Obstructed Runner: Protected until they reach the base which would have
been reached had there been no obstruction.
18. No Pitch: Declared when a pitch is delivered before a runner has retouched
their base after being legitimately off that base.
