IS THIS A JUDGMENT CALL?

[IndianaUmpRef]

I meant to bring this up a long time ago, but I forgot and (almost a year later) was reminded of it when browsing through on http://www.amateurumpire.com (figured I'd plug them. Nice site.)

On this field that we were on, the ground rules were pretty self-explanatory. Very nice field, with a nice tree-filled background. No holes anywhere or anything like that.

Simple play: A homerun... A BOMB. This one was traveling probably 80-100 feet over the centerfield fence. Bases were empty and so I am the BU at first and do a run out to the outfield just for the hell of it (like I said, we all knew it was out of there) and the PU follows the runner around. Well, I guess its times like this one why we do the "routine"/"just-in-case" stuff. This is one of those cases:

Very high up in the air, I couldn't even attempt to put a distance (from the ground) on it, the ball hits a tree branch above the field of play and falls down in the middle of centerfield. I get a real good look at it.

This was NOT brought up in the pre-game conference with coaches probably because this had never happened before. Like I said, these branches were WAY up.

I want to see what you all would do in this situation before I told you what I did. Just want to see what you all say.

I appreciate any feedback.

Zach