Worst thing you've seen an umpire do

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I remember this happened last fall during that time when many of our umps are working volleyball. One team gets a player on base with some speed and after the pitcher releases the ball she takes off for second. The pitch hits the ground and my partner calls "time! dead ball, runner goes back to first." I didn't even know what to think when a hear the coach grumble "I don't even read the rulebook and I know that's not right." At the half inning I tried to explain that if a pitch hits the ground it is not a dead ball, but he told me I was wrong and that in baseball if it hits the ground it's dead. I just remember that being a game I wanted to end.