I'll start by saying that I take full responsibility for this mistake. It was hot and humid, I was in my 5th game and I lost my focus, allowing something to happen that obviously shouldn't have. And yes Cecil, trouble seems to have a way of finding me
Here's what happened as it unfolded. Bases loaded and I'm field ump in C. 4 straight pitches for balls and pitcher walks in a run. The runner who was on 1st comes to second. 2 more pitches are thrown to the new batter when the defensive coaches comes out and says "hey, hey, isn't that girl that's on second supposed to be out? Didn't he (meaning me) call her out a minute ago?" My partner at the plate meets with me and says, "didn't you call her out at first when she batted?" And honestly, I couldn't clearly remember. Looking back I believe I had a very routine out (both me and my partner had a recorded out on our indicators), but then I didn't look at first anymore. Apparently the base coach simply kept her there and "got away" with it.
My partner pointed at the runner on second and said "you were called out", and the runner smiled and went back to the bench. No arguments at all from the offensive. The run that was walked in was allowed to count, because we didn't see a way of returning a scored run after pitches were thrown. We finished the inning, talked about it and decided that I obviously blew it and that the team cheated and got away with it (at least for awhile). I don't like to throw the cheat word around, but this team continued in this game and in others to ask to put improper subs and improper courtesy runners in the game (all caught before being accepted). Each time there was a "my mistake" and we moved on.
So I blew it and I know that, but what would anyone have done? Any rules covering something such as this?