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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
If I had been in Andy's spot, I would have stuck to my call (since it's MY call, not the PU's). Runner's safe, R1 scores.
And PU gets to tell the coach that he screwed up, not me. I'm not eating this one.
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I agree; to a point. First part, completely, second part, partially.
Andy is a (don't know the exact title) UIC; the partner appears to be more of a newbie, by the nature of the FUBAR. Putting myself in Andy's place, I think that I would have a better shot at selling the coach (and teams, and parents, and .....) the result of the play.
If the partner is less of a newbie, he can acknowledge to the coach it wasn't his call to make, but if we are going to play ball without ejections, I now step in with "
WE didn't handle this right, here's what we have to do
by rule." I then repeat that the call at first belongs to me, and that I saw the safe, and safe it will remain.
With the added benefit, no doubt, that safe makes the timing of the runner from third moot. The other way around (I have out, he has safe), I can only pray that I caught a glimpse of the runner to give an educated guess, since PU obviously has his back to home). This isn't like "you don't guess an out", and "I didn't see the run score" doesn't have any validity, because you didn't see that the run didn't score, either. You give it your best SWAG (sophisticated wild-a$$ guess), and suck it up.