Partner makes major mistake

[Steve M]

In your Situation B, the low level JV game with a new PU, I want to be near the conferences - it's a JV game, your partner is there to learn, the players are there to learn, and the coaches are there to learn. Do that and Situation C does not happen. The option of just calling the out 'cuz nobody else knows any better is going to cause problems for some umpire crew in the future. I don't want to have to clean up somebody else' mess, so I don't want to create one that someone else will have to cleanup.

As for Situation A, I'm waiting on my partner to ask me. Obviously, BU did not see the fake throw. There's really no difference in this than with a pulled foot on a force play or a ball on the ground on a tag play. I don't add anything to those, until asked - no reason to do anything differently in this one.