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Originally Posted by bigsig
I had a different situation with similar results a few years ago in a Varsity game. I was BU. 2 outs, no runners. Line drive hit to F3 who caught it on one hop. PU immediately called it a catch for 3rd out. BR stopped running, F3 just started to run off the field without touching 1B. OC asked PU to get help. He came to me and asked if I had a catch. I told him the ball had been clearly caught on a hop. PU asked what should we do? We decided to stick with the original call and call it a catch and 3rd out. I don't know if that was correct or not but didn't know how to fix it.
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The way to "fix" this is to determine (as well as you could) what would most likely have happened had the call been correct immediately. In this case, it seems to me the most likely outcome if PU immediately ruled no catch, would be for F3 to simply make the easy play at first. Same result.
In the OP, if it happened in softball (or in baseball without replay), and we changed our call at first, the most likely outcome (had the call at 1st been made accurately and immediately) would be for the play at home to have been a tag. Had F2 known a tag was necessary, there was plenty of time for F2 to have executed that tag. I now have 2 outs on this play.