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With the ball being a slow roller between the pitcher and first, I don't imagine the home plate umpire is worrying about plate coverage in that situation. There is plenty of time to retreat to home for a possible play should one develop.
I disagree with the notion that U1 should have known something unusual had happened. Players drop balls all the time, even from their gloves. Runners don't have to avoid the fielder at that level(in that instance anyway) and can run right through them, possibly dislodging the ball. U1 called what he saw (or in this case didn't see) attempted tag and ball on the ground. Signal safe. When U1 gets screened, there's not much to do but call what you saw and hope your partners can help out on the call with a better angle.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. ~Socrates
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