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Scenario #1; repitition, repetition, repetition. Double calls, or the appearance of same, will always get that kind or reaction. With experience, you will slow down, and make just one call.
Scenario #2; your bigger problem was your partner even speaking with the coach on that play. Bigger yet is that he chose to give you his unsolicited opinion on a play he had no good angle to see. If he thought he was helping, he was wrong; he allowed the chain of events.
As a newbie, you can't eb the one to counsel him, but you need to talk to your UIC, association training officer, scheduler, someone. Your partner should have told that coach that he couldn't and wouldn't discuss that play with him, nor with you. Rules 10.1-G and 10.1-H were breached!!
G. No umpire has the authority to set aside or question decisionsmade by another umpire.
H. An umpire may consult the other umpire ...... and who requeststhe opinion of the other umpire.
You caved. Okay, you need to have the confidence in your call. With experience, you might even advise a partner who does what this one does that 1) you didn't ask his opinion, 2) it is unprofessional and totally inappropriate for him to come over and give it without you asking, 3) there is no rules basis for you to overturn your call based on his opinion, unless he can offer some part of the play you didn't see at all.
If I was the other team's coach, I would try to protest the game, since the rules were breached when you didn't request his help. (Yeah, I know, failure to adhere to Rule 10 isn't grounds for appeal; but I would make more noise than that team manager did.)
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