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Though, "under the influence" is probably not the correct term, yes he can.
Here's one that happened to me a long time back. Foul pop-up hit near the offensive dugout. The 3rd baseman moved over toward the dugout. Just as the fielder got there, the ball still about 30-40 feet in the air, the quiet dugout all scream at once, "I've got it!" They scream so loud the fielder literial jumps back and turns her head away like she is getting ready to collide with someone. I call "verbal interference" and go back to the plate.
The offensive coach calmly walks up to me and says, "Verbal interference?" and I say, "yeah, that's an out." The coach then says, but the ball fell into dead ball territory, she couldn't have caught it. I realized that he was right. I was concentrating so much on the fielder that it had not registered that I had noticed the ball fall into dead ball territory. With the high fence there was no way the fielder could have caught it. I immediately overturned my call... "under the influence" of the coach.
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Dan
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