double base type question

[Little Jimmy]

This happened yesterday. A two part question. Fed rules.

Part one. No runners on. I'm in the field. Batter hits ball to pitcher who easily fields and throws to first. F3 does the typical strech to receive the ball but drops the routine throw. Ball rolls about 6 inches into foul territory. F3 picks up ball and reaches back with her foot touching only orange bag (from my angle anyway: more on that later ). Runner, thinking she was an easy out, stops 10-15 feet away and starts walking to her dugout. Coach sees what I see and tells her to get on the base, which she does. I have given no call until batter reached base, then I signal safe. Given this information, do you agree or disagree with my call? I seem to remember a recent discussion saying this was not a time orange bag could be used.


Part two. After I satisfied the offensive coach that I made the right call (if I did), home ump calls me in and says from his angle F1 touched the part of the orange bag that was directly over the white chalk line. In other words the chalk line was a few inches too far to the right. He brought up the idea that if we were using the line as it was then that portion of the bag was actually in fair territory. After thinking about it for a moment I agreed with his logic and reversed myself calling the runner out( and then explained everything to the defensive coach). Given this information, do you agree or disagree with my reversal? By the way I definitely think we blew not seeing the misplaced chalk line before the game started.