Changing Calls

[David Emerling]

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As an individual umpire, you cannot LEGALLY decide to change a call because, in your judgement, "there is no continuous action to worry about". That rationale might be a good justification for why the rule makers have allowed certain calls to be changed, but it is not a valid reason to allow the individual umpire to LEGALLY change any call on the diamond, especially a judgement decision, when that call or decision is not previously allowed to be changed by rule or interpretation.

We already have a list of 5 calls that can be legally changed.
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Which specific rule would you cite to support that it is illegal for an umpire to change his call because of the reason above? I'm inclined to agree with you, philosophically, but I am more interested in the rule citation.

On a swipe tag on the base paths, where the runner is called out ... when the dust settles, if the umpire making the original call should subsequently decide to change that call (for whatever reason), would that be protestable as a misapplication of the rules by the offended manager? And, if so, which rule was misapplied?

9.02(a) "Any umpire's decision which involves judgment ... is final. No player, manager, coach or substitute shall object to any such judgment decisions."

In this case, his final decision (the second one) would be final ... if you follow me.