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Originally Posted by Andy
Situation presented to me from one of our local HS umpires:
Multiple runners on base, base hit to the outfield.
Ball is returned to the pitcher in the circle, BU starts moving to position, PU calls time and requests to talk to the BU.
PU's question to BU: Why didn't you call the look back violation on the batter-runner? That is your call.
BU: I didn't see that, I was watching the lead runner.
PU then proceeds to declare the B/R out on the look back violation.
As a result of this, the third base coach protested enough to be ejected.
1. Shouldn't the PU have just called the look back violation when he saw it?
2. What is your opinion on making that call, even though it may have been the right call, after that delay and conferring with the BU?
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1) Probably. Depends on the umpires. If BU knows what he's doing, as PU, I'm leaving him to his call - assuming he saw something differently than I did and had a reason not to call it. If BU is unknown to me or just new, I likely call it immediately and discuss with partner afterward. I suppose there could be some middle ground if I was unsure whether the BU failed to make the call for reason A or reason B - which might land me in the official in question's situation... But if anything, doing so is ---
2) Problematic, and he's got to be ready to take a lot more crap than usual... but if the coach ejects himself anyway, so be it.