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First of all, I will assume (which I know can get me in trouble), that you were the senior umpire here. Therefore it is your responsibility to protect the crew under all cost. Im talking about this level of ball , LL majors.
Do your best to work with the young official during the game and offer as much constructive critique as possible after the game. By telling the coach it was your partners call, you basically sold him out to the wolves. You should have been telling the coach that the call was whatever he called it and he would have to deal with it. You should of put an end to it right there.
Just remember when one umpire looks bad, the crew looks bad, and that includes you. I would have been all over this coach real early and taking control of the situation and let him know that you were protecting your partner, right or wrong. In between innings I would have been instructing the young official (in an obvious manner) to try and help the situation.
Take a negative situation and make it as positive as possible and you might end up protecting a potential major league umpire. Ive been in that situation and was smileing from one end to the next when a young official came up to me 10 yrs latter and thanked me for the time I spent with him, as a result of a similar incident. I was a little jealous that he had already surpassed me on the ladder of officiating Baseball but, I was happy that I helped him get on the ladder.
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