[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve

IMO, this was handled correctly. Well, obviously not by the umpires, but the only right result.

The runner legally crossed the plate, and the rules say the run scored. Even if the umpire says it didn't score, it did. Even if they didn't put it on the scoreboard; the run scored.

Sure, you can say they should protest, but what do you do when there are no protests? If something then followed which changed because of the failure to acknowledge the run scored, you could say it affected the game; and that is the sole reason to have to protest before the next pitch, and why a protest upheld is replayed from that time.

The umpires looked by fools; well, they deserve that. The opposing team wasn't disadvantaged; in fact, in other cases where the umpire tells the team the wrong thing (like the count, or how many outs there are), the answer is that the team needed to know the situation. Well, all three parties to this SHOULD have known the run scored. It did score.

Any other result is unfair and inappropriate, IMO.

The issues of the rules misapplication should have been brought up immediately not an inning later (10-2-3i note). When the umpires did not allow the run at that point it was a misapplication and the rules do say when that should be addressed.