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If you're working with a new partner and have not discussed this sitch, you had better go as Mike and Steve have said, or you may end up with 2 umpires at the same base (or none where one is needed!) This (and similar sitches) is one where discussion in pregame is helpful - and I have seen deviations that work, if discussed in advance.
All I can add to Mike and Steve's input is that as PU is coming home for the play at the plate, BU should be sliding toward third behind the play, in case this becomes a rundown. Next to having 0 or 2 umpires on a play, the worst thing that can happen on a weird play is for an umpire to be stuck with both ends of a rundown, and another umpire doing nothing.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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