Trigger happy umpire leads to overturned forfeit

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Okay, based simply on game situation and ingnoring the extraneous idiocy of this individual umpire and speaking ASA:

Unless the league has specific rules to address an ejection and forfeit contrary to ASA, they lack the authority to ignore the forfeit.

If the softball league we service would have vacated the forfeit ,they would have had 2 choices. 1) Game with no umpires or 2) coin flip.

Depending on the umpire's past record,that more than likely would have been his last game to call in our association. The first time you do that sets a precedent. Next you'll be having teams appealing game forfeiture after game forfeiture and the League will have more problems than they ever had and it would be traced back to this event.