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Originally posted by reccer
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Blues, I am a far better coach now than I was before I discovered this site.
My team is on offense, 2 outs, I'm in 3rd base coaching box. Little pop to F3, she dives and from my view, ball hits glove and then ground. My attention is diverted to one of my other base runners. Next thing I know defense is running to their dugout. On my way to my first base dugout I asked PU who was called out and why. PU says BU ruled a catch. I said ball was on ground, PU says he saw same thing. PU conferred with BU and call was reversed.
Defense coach says his team had already left infield and that my "appeal" was too late. Its true, they had left infield. Blues ignored him.
Is there a reasonableness standard you guys follow on these 3rd out appeals when defense vacates their positions? I'd like to calmly walk up to a Blue and make an appeal even though the kids have left the infield.
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In addition to the comments about the mechanics, there is another aspect about changing the call and getting it right. If the call is changed, the umpires need to assess outs and place the runners where they would have ended up had the call been made properly. When that cannot be done, the play cannot be corrected. Calling the out killed the inning in this scenario. With multiple runners, perhaps force plays at bases other than 1st, would the defense have another play possible? Did the runners hold or advance? Because it was just a little pop-up to F3, it might be possible to know how the play would have ended up, but it might easily be a case of, sorry coach, the ball was caught, and we can't change it.
Mike