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On watching the video many times I see Patterson lying on the ground, arms stretched but not touching third base as he was trying to get back to third base while F2 touchs him for an out. I never see Martinez getting touched nor do I see both Patterson and Martinez occupying third base at the same time. How can Martinez be called out?
The third base coach should have put up more of a fight on this one. If I am missing something please tell me but I dont see how the crew got this right.
I had a very similar play a few months ago in a Men's league. Same situation with runners, B3 hits ground ball to F4, R2 breaks for third base while R3 heads for home. R3 decides to go back to third base and I have both R2 and R3 on third base as the same time. Someone on the Defense tells F2 (he had the ball) to touch R2 after doing so I point and look at R2 and call him out. Then for some unknown reason R3 steps off the base and F2 touchs him too for an inning over DP. The offense puts up a little fight saying how can that be and the same thing happened to them the night before. I explain the rule to them and think to myself (if this just happened to you last night and you still havent learned, then it sucks to be YOU).
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