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Ok, here's a situation I had a couple days ago in a high school age, everybody plays league. Game is going along Ok, although visiting team is up by quite a bit. I know game has to be close to a 10 run difference, although I'm not sure of exact score. This league has 10 run mercy rule in effect after 5 innings. At the end of 5 the visiting coach informs me that the score is 12-2 so I say ok, 10 run rule, that's game. Home coach(who's a notorious mouther and problem) starts screaming that it's only 11-2, games not over. I then state(as he continues mouthing that I'm a terrible ump, his book says 11-2, etc.) that we have a discrepancy in the books so we need to get them together and try to work it out. I tell him if we can't work it out then home team's book is the official one and we go with that. He continues to mouth, tells his scorekeeper not to go to the visiting teams scorekeeper, and is basically just being an a** and continuing to state his book is all that matters. At this point I tell him he's out of the game and if he keeps mouthing about it I'll just call the game. He of course kept mouthing and causing trouble and never seemed to really want to work out the discrepancy, so I called the game. By the way, the visitors were more than happy to try to get together and work things out. I'm not sure if I overreacted(by calling the game before examining the books, underreactted(by not tossing the coach sooner), or what and would like some feedback. This is a coach who pretty much everyone has problems with and I reported the situation to the directors of the league who were present and have put a call in to the head umpire regarding this situation. If it matters, I'm a pretty mild mannered guy, who also does basketball officiating and have only given 1 technical foul in the past 4 years and have never ejected someone from baseball in about 10 years of umping. I generally go with the flow, but felt this was way overboard. I'm guessing I'll get some opinions for my actions and some against, but am interested in what other's think. Thanks.
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