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You did the correct thing. Believe or not.. coaches have some respect for umps who call it as they see it, even if they dont agree.
I give you an alternative example.
Last month I was watching my daughters team play - I am Joe Fan. The umpire is a HS kid obviously not very well learned or good at umpiring.
Someone on my daughters team come sliding into home plate and is tagged out by a foot. It's not even a close play. I am standing to the side near the bench but outside the fence of course and yell "SAFE" (yes the pangs of guilt are overwhelming) ... the ump makes the call safe. I saw it, both coaches saw it, everyone knew it was an out.. but I yelled safe and the ump was affected by that yell.
So while you could shade your calls to what YOU THINK the people want you to call or what you think they saw.. (I yelled safe even though I knew it was an out - just because) you will not be a respected umpire and everyone will know you dont know what you are doing.
Call it as you see it. Period.
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