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I'm interested in know what you did with the runners after your partner calls a ball foul and then you come in on appeal and say that it is fair? I don't know, even though he was wrong I think you might just have to stick with the original call.

In the situations above, if you know for sure the ruling is incorrect, I would call time, call my partner over and ask him what his ruling was, maybe he saw something I didn't. If I still feel he is incorrect then I would tell him what I feel the ruling should be and why? If he is still hard headed and doesn't want to chnage it, the I would probably just let it stand and call our UIC and let him handle it after that.

I had a situation with one umpire. I was on the bases, he was on the plate. Batter hits a foul ball that goes up and back, hits the top of the backstop and the catcher catches it on the way down. The PU calls the batter out. I waited a second cause I couldn't believe what I heard, and he said it again, batter is out. Well of course the batter is going nuts and so I go over, ask him what he ruled. He said out on the catch. I asked if he saw the ball hit the backstop, I was hoping that he didn't, but he said that he saw it. I then told him that if the ball hit the backstop that it was dead and cannot be caught for an out. He asked if that was right, I said yes and he changed the call. Now if he would have insisted that the batter was out. I would have let it go after I tried to convince him, and them called our UIC after and had him taken off the list.

If they won't change it on the field I think you just need to let it go and then call the guys above and let them handle him. This would only apply to rules interpretations, not judgement calls.