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When I ump alone (most of the time) I give myself the Infield Fly Rule Situation signal but putting my arm across my chest, to remind myself that I've got a potential IFC situation.
Two weeks ago, I had one, with R1 on 2B, R2 on 1B, and 1 out. B3 hit an ordinary pop up to to F4. I called Infield Fly when the ball was at its apex. F4 takes four very small backpedaling steps over the lip of the infield back onto the right field grass, and drops the ball, and not intentionally either. Offensive team members go crazy, and demand that I can't call an IFF on a ball that lands in the outfield. I tell them that where the ball lands does not define the IFF, but where the fielder is positioned before the play does, (in the infield) and F4 got to the ball with ordinary effort (even though he dropped it). Offense failed to realize that without IFF, they would have been doubled up on the play, since the runners held their bases when the ball was popped up, hence the purpose of the IFF. But they just wanted to disagree with the umpire, and tell him that he was wrong, but he wasn't.
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