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"I don't move (still have my arm up) and everyone (!) leaves the field.
Maybe, because that's an out signal too.. Once you correctly call the INF and point, your done with that call, get your hand back down and get ready for the next one..all it takes to look like you called the out is for the finger to curl a little. Had you not had hand your hand in the air, you may have gotten a different reaction? Who knows? But mechanically, verbalize, signal and it's over with, now somebody at least has to get "another" call out of ya.
It sounds like you didn't call the 3RD out at all. Whom did you ring up for the 3RD out? In your explaination did you tell the OC that R3 or somebody was the 3rd out, for abandoning? Or is coach gonna be having nightmares all night that he still only has "two outs in the 3rd inning"?
I might have even a signaled safe or verbally "no force there" on the step of F4, as a "hey, it ain't an obvious appeal here ( which I'm not advocating here), and R1 ain't out on a force"..
You give a safe sign there, I bet ya, F4 picks up the ball steps on 2ND and says "but he didn't tag up".
I just figured out why this play happens: 1 out, INF 2 outs.
As a base runner, how many times ya heard "2 outs, go on anything"...
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