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Originally Posted by Dakota
Hmmm... maybe you could elaborate, 'cause this sounds like you taught the new umpire early on that a more experience umpire will toss him under the bus to the pleasure of the coaches and fans...  (hopefully, not what you meant or did...) |
Let's not be quite so quick to eat our own here.
I'm willing to give Mr. Zebra the benefit of the doubt here as I have been in similar situations where I had to correct an obvious mis-ruling by a new and/or inexperienced partner.
Example: HS JV game a few years ago, I'm BU, my PU partner is doing about his fourth game ever.
Batter fouls the pitch high off of the backstop, the ball rebounds right to F2 as she turns around and catches the ball before it hits the ground. My PU partner calls the batter out!
Obviously, I was not going to let that call stand, so I trotted down to the plate area and told my partner that the ball had hit the backstop and was just a foul ball. His response was that he thought that anytime the batted ball was caught before it hit the ground, it should be an out.
I do not know exactly what transpired during the game in the OP, but I present this example as a case of what could have happened.