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"Any suggestions how I might handle this situation with this umpire in the future?'
Let it go! Is it really that important that you know why? The official made a call you didn't like. Right or wrong, it's not going to get changed. So wether you realize it or not, or even if your congenial about it, the message you are sending is that your going to dispute the call.
Thats the same message your sending to your players. If you think that doing what I say and not what I do, works in today's world, you need some good coaching lessons.
Learn to deal with the part of the game you cannot control and you will be a much better coach. Does anyone yell at you each time you make a wrong coaching decision? Sometimes it just happens. Officials are human beings just like you. That means we are imperfect to begin with, and have to learn how to become more perfect everyday.
Spend more time teaching your players to be respectful and then good ballplayers, I guarntee you will gain more of their respect than the approach your taking now.
Now, you can either take my advise and spend more time in the game helping your players become better people and ballplayers. Or tell me I'm wrong, and spend less time with your players and more time explaining to your parents along the side lines, why your team always gets hosed.
"Any suggestions how I might handle this situation with this umpire in the future?"
RESPECT, RESPECT, RESPECT.
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