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If you've ever been on the wrong end of this, you'll ensure it doesn't happen in the future.
2-strikes, no one on 1st. Checkswing that you don't call a strike on a passed ball or wild pitch. Pitch goes to the backstop, catcher fumbles around, gets the ball, throws it back to the pitcher, and THEN asks for the appeal.
In some areas, you don't HAVE to appeal when requested, and in some you do. Even in those where you don't, you're likely to create some ill will if you don't, some some umpires will advise that you go ahead and ask for the appeal.
In this particular case, if you ask for the appeal, and the BU rings up the batter, you have put the batter at a disadvantage in that she'd have ended up at 1st base on the D3K had the strike been called immediately. By rule, if the umpire puts a player in danger of an out by his own "mistake", he can rectify the situation by placing runners. In this particular sitch, all you have is a $hithouse, and everyone's upset whether you put BR on 1st or ring her up.
So MOST experienced base umpires will simply rule "no swing" in this case. Newbies don't know this, and don't realize that if they call it a swing, they've set up a situation that no one will be happy with. So I explain it to them.
I'm sure to get some disagreement on this from other Umpires - but would expect that most do exactly the same thing.
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