Calling Time

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I was in A in a 3 man crew for a tournament game last summer. F1 threw the ball to F3 to try to pickoff R1. R1 dives back. SAFE. R1 is laying on the ground, picks his left hand up to call time while still contacting the base with right hand. F3 is standing over him with the ball in his glove waiting to see if R1 will wander. I say nothing when R1 calls for time. R1 loses contact with the base as he gets up, F3 tags him, and I ring up R1.

You can imagine the sh*thouse the coaches and fans wanted to make out of this. My only answer was "coach, you can't expect to get time called when the 1b man is holding the ball over your runner to see if he will make a mistake". 1B coach did his job from then on, told his runner to stay on the bag.