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There wasn't any question - just a story about an odd reaction by both teams.
The award would have been 1B, because the ball wasn't that deep into RF and was returned fairly quickly. But, that wasn't the reason I dropped my arm.
As a single umpire, I was inside the diamond about half way to 1B, facing RF, so my DDB signal was pointing toward 2B. When the coach first said what she did, I dropped the arm thinking she was perhaps mistaking the DDB signal as me pointing to award a base. (My mask was in my left hand).
I doubt the verbalization caused this reaction, but you never know.
Certainly, the BR was able to try for 2B, since it was a live ball. So was the defense able to try for the out, they wouldn't have gotten the out, but they would have kept the runner at first.
It just seemed like both teams bought the 1B coach's statement that I was "giving" the BR 2B. BR trotting casually to 2B; defense just watching it happen.
If there is a question here anywhere, it would be, ...
When the 1B coach stated I was "giving" the runner 2B, I just chose to drop the arm and let the play complete. Any comments on that? Should I have said anything?
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Tom
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