I'm BU at 18G last weekend. There is a steal and I'm in great position for the play. The throw beats the girl by a lot (apparently the runner slowed up).. the glove w/ ball was down waiting for the girl.. and the girl slides directly into the glove.. but wait.
My mind thinks "the tag missed her! wtf?!?! how the heck did she do that?". The glove kind of appeared to miss her by less than an inch.. but did it?!?!
I'm on a 90 behind 2b, the play, F6 is tagging in front of the runner.... my mind is kind of fizzling because despite the obviousness of the can of corn tag play.. my brain thinks it might have saw a safe.. so obviously, I do what any good umpire would do, I sell it out. I mean, it has to be an out right? she slid right into the glove.. it coudnt have missed.
I think all is well.
The girl gets up and starts saying "she totally missed me" and gesturing at her coach. She goes to the dug out. Now I'm thinking.. oh crap, she really did miss her! Some miracle safe. No one else says a word except good throw, etc to the catcher.
We go on with life and Soon the inning ends, I'm near their dugout at 1B.. and here comes the coach from the 3B box yelling into his dugout.
He starts mocking her about how she runs slowly, gets thrown out by 10 feet, slides right into a tag, and dares to suggest she was safe. He goes on and on verbally beating her in a nice coach way for a few minutes.
It was kind of funny.. but I think I blew that one... I dont know how I would have explained in any decent manner a safe call.. but I think she may have been telling the truth.
Only me and her know, thats for sure... cuz no one else saw that.