Well, it finally happened. I would have had my first ejected fast pitch player, but by partner beat me to it. It was really her call anyway, a flagrant crash at home and she was the plate umpire. Both players were injured. That of course turned into a debate with the manager and coaches that almost got them ejected. In the collision, both players were upright and yet coaches and teammates kept saying things like "you can't eject her for sliding". And then some nitwit in the offense team crowd said something about running them over and the defense coach thought it came from the offense dugout, so he came charging out and I had to head him off and get him back to his dugout. Fun game, except for that.
BTW, the coaches from yesterday's "first inning" apologized today, but I'm not cynical about it being at the beginning of their game which I was umpiring.
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