"correcting" a partner

[Little Jimmy]

Cecil said...
Was she off the base?
If a meaningful moment, could you have asked "anything I need to know?"?

Wasn't off base. It seemed to me like he was going with the batting out of order, but with the wind howling and the fact that he never looked my way, I was guessing. At that moment, I thought if I went in to ask him, the first thing to address would have been that offensive couldn't appeal, and I'm not sure where that road would have led us.