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NCASA Ump,
I'm not sure we view it differently. What I saw that convinced me that the call was justified was that F6 could not react to the ball, i.e., raise her arms from below waist to chest high, before it had nearly passed her. This was not a bad hop ball, but F6 looked just like a fielder does when trying to react to a bad hop ball that eats her up. F6 just didn't have enough time to react whereas without R2 in the mix, it's a routinely approached bouncing ball. To me, that was concrete.
I very much like your breakdown of needing to see something concrete upon which to base the call. It simply can't be that F6 missed the ball because that assumes that F6 never makes errors, and this particular F6 showed as the game went on, that frankly she was a very poor fielder.
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