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Originally Posted by eagle_12
Tailor-made 4-6-3 double play, great stop by F4, perfect feed to F6 coming across the bag, but....................
As F6 is catching the ball while coming across second, he never makes a catch (ball hits him in the gut, bobbles it a little, and drops it on the ground)
Runner thinking that the he would be out, and not causing contact, slid a good 10 ft. short of the bag. Well he got stuck in the muddy infield and then saw the ball dropped and had to scramble to second.
F6 recovered the ball and tried tagging the runner while scrambling towards the base.
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As an official we make a call when a call needs to be made.
Simple example: R1: F1 simply tosses the ball to F3 who throws it back to F1
In the aforementioned F3 did NOT apply a tag but simply tossed the ball back to F1 therefore, as an umpire we signal nothing. When the defense makes a PLAY on a runner is when we signal something.
Now back to your OP
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As F6 is catching the ball while coming across second, he never makes a catch (ball hits him in the gut, bobbles it a little, and drops it on the ground)
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There is nothing to signal. Now if it was in DOUBT as to whether or not F6 bobbled the ball etc. then we would give a signal but in your OP the ball was dropped so no need to signal anything.
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F6 recovered the ball and tried tagging the runner while scrambling towards the base.
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Here the defense made a play on a runner so we signal.
In summary: We signal when the defense makes a play on a runner.
Pete Booth