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Originally Posted by Justme
It shouldn't have happened as you described. Calls can be changed but only the umpire making the call should change the call. Other umpires can offer additional information but not change their partner's call.
Contact the umpire assignor for the association supplying the officials. Let him/her know what happened.
Learn all of the rules.
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OBR 9.04 (c) seems to indicate that the umpire in chief (or other umpire as designated by the league) can, in the case of a disputed call, over rule the original call.
I don't know what code the OP was under, and I suspect that BU wasn't the league-designated umpire, so I doubt if this rule applies in that sitch.
(Usually a rat doesn't get this much attention, but in that spirit ...) Coach, if the game was under OBR, the appropriate rules to cite in the appeal were 9.04 (a) and 9.05 (b), which clearly give the priority on a play at HP to PU.
-LilLeaguer