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Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000
Perhaps your partner could have called time out when he heard that the coach was requesting that play stop. Why didn't your partner kill the play?
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Good point and it would have been a nice piece of umpiring on your partner's behalf.
However, beyond that, if anyone asks you the age-old stupid coach/player/spectator question of, "how can you end the game like that?", simply respond that you didn't end the game, the pitcher did.
Umpires simply enforce the rules. I don't know an umpire which strives or even looks for something to bring about the end of a game under questionable circumstances.
Sue Enquist lost a NCAA championship game a couple years ago when there was a DMR by the player on third. If I remember correctly, the previous year THE championship game was ended by a DMR by a player on second. And last year, I'm pretty sure the umpire did not plan on ending the championship game of the World Cup of Softball with a LBR violation.