[BretMan]

Huh? If you initially didn't score the run because you thought that the bases were loaded (implying that you thought the tag play was an inning-ending force out), then wouldn't you have articulated that in the conference with the other umpires and wouldn't at least one of them have told you they weren't?

Then you're right back to square one. You either saw the runner touch the plate before the tag or you didn't. If you're not sure, then you don't know if you made a bad call or not! Why would you be apologizing if you werent sure you were wrong?

Keeping in mind that Johnson's side of it is a second-hand account of a third-rate explanation...if Porter really did apologize, apparently it was for first getting it wrong when he actually had it right (albeit for the wrong reasons), not for ultimately getting it wrong after they huddled up.

Looks like he owes somebody another apology!