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My philosophy is that if I, as an umpire, make more errors than the team questioning the call, then it is more justified. In this situation (which barely happens, because there are usually at least a few defensive errors, baserunning blunders, etc...), the umpire may have very well "costed" the team a game.
However, most of the time the team has made errors during the game too. That is the hard part about umpiring. You are supposed to always be perfect. It doesn't happen with the players, and it doesn't happen with the umpires. The worst is a team that has booted the ball around all game, got picked off bases.... comes out to challenge a close call that you have made.
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