R1 and BR hits a check swing hump back liner down the right field line. The ball is not up in the air very long, so I get out from behind the plate, clear the catcher and only get maybe three steps before I set up straddling the line for the call. At that point, the fielders cross in front of me and effectively screen me off from seeing the ball hit. It didn't have a lot of spin and I think it would have hit fair so I call it a fair ball.
1st base bench (defense) and coach go nuts shouting that the ball was foul by two feet. I tell the coach I was screened and called it where I thought it was going to land.
Since this was a one umpire game, did I do the right thing. How do you handle something like this?
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