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Originally Posted by DG
It sure looked to me like...my partner bangs the runner out.
Even if my partner asks for help after the play I am going to tell him it looked to me like F3 missed the tag, but he may have had a better angle and I respect his view of the play and do not recommend a change. After the game I will suggest to him that if he wants help he needs to ask before he calls an out, not before. And, I don't expect he will need help on the call.
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In this case, DG, I disagree. One of the reasons we trail a BR up the line is to help if there's a swipe tag. When F3 has to come off of the bag toward the plate and make a sweeping tag attempt on the BR whose passed him, we have a much better view of the tag/no tag from the backside than the BU does. I'd never overrule him, but I'm not going to hesitate to tell him he was straight lined and didn't see the miss of the tag. Ultimately it's his call, but I'd hope he wouldn't let pride get in the way of letting me help him make the right call. I do agree that if he has any doubts he
should come to me before he makes a call, but that doesn't always happen when you're working with new partners.
Tim.