[Cubbies87]

13yr old regular season game - FED Rules
R2, 1 out

B1 hits fly ball to F7 who catches it. While the ball is in the air, the third base coach is screaming, "Come on, come on, 2 outs, 2 outs!" R2, believing his coach, is running with the fly. After the catch, he stops short of 3rd, takes off his helmet, and starts walking towards his dugout. The defense is walking/jogging to their dugout.

Before all of the fielders have left the field, and before R2 passes the mound, the offensive coach wises up and yells to R2 from the dugout, "Go back! Touch 3rd and run home!" The catcher turns to me, "was that only the second out?"

I'm standing on first baseline extended, waiting for a surge of activity on a play at the plate, and before anything can happen, my field ump calls R2 out. The coach on offense brings his runner in without much protest because everyone was discombobulated, but informs U2 he made the wrong call. U2 decides to tell the coach that he called the runner out for leaving the baseline on his way to the dugout. The coach promptly responds correctly that the runner is only out for leaving the basepath if he is avoiding a tag. U2 says, "Well coach, I've made my call, and the runner is out."

U2 doesn't ask me for help, nobody asks U2 to ask me for help, and nobody asks me for help. In the next half inning, a coach walks up to me and asks, "So did he botch that call?" I simply respond, "My partner felt the runner abondoned his effort to advance. The players should be aware of the game situation."

Now, I knew U2 blew the call, and I was ready to hit R2 with a warning for removing his helemet in live ball territory, but was I right in not "overruling" my partner? Nobody asked for help and nobody seemed to be real upset, and with all the talk we have about not overruling a partner and showing a united front, I just kept my mouth shut. But, if I know for a fact that a rule is being enforced incorrectly, do I have an obligation to fix the application, and if so, how would I have in that situation? Yelled that R2 was not out and try and see the play develop? That sounds like a much worse option.