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Originally posted by jumpmaster
Gordon - good call and I would have called the same thing.
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I agree. It's one thing if the fielder jabs at the base once and you're not sure. At that point, I ask my partner for help. In the situation described, since he jabbed TWICE, I call "Safe", and IF, and ONLY if the coach comes out and says, "Blue, he got it on the first try. Can you ask for help?", am I going to my partner.
The coach in this situation didn't say anything, so there was nothing to change. It didn't make a farce of the game and to me, stuff like that happens in a two man crew (we want to get it right 100% of the time, but the pitcher made it so obvious), so we have to choose our battles.
Windy, I know what your saying and I agree with part of it. But if a changed call like this was initiated by the umpires and not the coaches, then you really are asking for an ejection, and I'm not in the business of ejecting coaches. Disputed home runs, misinterpretation of rules and such where the game is being compromised...then I'm all for umpires going out to their partner and alerting them to their mistake. There are ways to do that without showing up your partner. But in this case, a judgement was made and that's just part of baseball.