What would you do?

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Originally posted by LDUB
It is somewhere under rule 9 that the PU can only ask for help on a pitch which is called a ball. If you try change the pitch from ball to strike, you very well may end up with a protest.

OBR 902(c) is the rule you are referring to LDUB..I don't have my FED books with me so the exact number there I am not sure of. But what you point out is my point exactly...the PU erroneously granted an appeal when he shouldn't have, but since the appeal was granted, you have to make the call. I'm staying with the strike call because I agree with you that a strike when called by the PU on the check swing cannot be changed...but if it is so completely obvious, now a storm may erupt with you right in the middle of it. See the possible problem here?