Opinions needed, OBR rules

[BK47]

wouldnt you treat this situation just as you would if an umpire called a fair ball foul? someone is going to be pissed while someone is getting a break. you live with your mistake, take your a$$ chewing and hopefully you dont do it again. like byron, I too used to say "Strike 3, batter out" until something like this very thing happened to me. I overheard the coach tell his batter no matter what you run to first anyway on a dropped third strike and force the defense to make a play. Thats when I knew I had to stop saying "batter out" on any third strike.

Now on a questionable strike three I will say this instead "Strike three, and thats a catch" or "Strike three, no catch, no catch".

[bob jenkins]

In FED rules (I know, not what was requested), the umpire can "decide" whether BR would have likely made it to first or not. If so, then award as jk suggests. Otherwise, keep the out anyway.

Under the OBR "get it right" philosophy, I'd likely do the same thing.

[jkumpire]

Well, these reponses are very interesting, and thank you for them.

Points:

1. My first post was not clear, so let me restate: The PU and BU met, and the PU decided he missed the call. He wanted to get the call right, so he admitted his mistake. Four years ago, my adivce would have consisted of: "Try BBQ sauce as the call goes down. For better or worse, things have changed.

2. In OBR these days as I understand it, and as I believe Bob is suggesting, the proper proceedure is to fix what you can make it right. So yes, maybe I should have asked about where the ball was after F2 dropped it. Still, I am not totally sold this was germaine to the problem at hand.