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I have sent a partner home before, however it was in football instead of baseball.
Two years ago I was working a Friday afternoon MS game, that was supposed to be 3-man, and was supposed to start at 3:30 to give me plenty of time to get to my varsity game that night (5:45 pre-game start time). However the visiting team didn't arrive until 3:40 (bus problems within the district) so kickoff was not until 4:00, my lines guy is still not there, so I go over how to cover 2-man with the guy who I am working with.
The game goes on with no problems despite working 2-man because neither team can move the ball very far. With a minute to go in the 2nd qtr a kid goes down for a minute the coaches come out to tend to him and I see out of the corner of my eye our 3rd official walking over to the field, I go over to meat him at the edge of the track surrounding the field. He explains to me how he was late because of traffic, and I was going to let it go at that despite being an hour late for scheduled kickoff. Then he says he forgot his whistle, flag and beanbag. I ask him how he planned to officiate the game, he just gave me a blank stare, I then told him to get off the field and go home because he obviously couldn't officiate this game.
The kicker to me was the guy was just 15, I didn't have a problem with that. I did have a problem with the email I got (via our association president) about how I was completely out of line, it was not the officials fault he didn't have his equipment, it was his Mom's job to pack his officiating gear and that I should be required to pay the kids travel pay out of my own pocket.
I sent back a response along the lines of, if he is responsible enough to officiate football games then he is responsible enough to pack his own gear bag.
A little long winded but that is my story about kicking a partner out of a game.
Jasper
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