Did I kick it ?

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Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu

Now there is some confusion about R1 on second base. No one tagged him with the ball but F4 ran over to 1B and stepped on the base. I'm looking at my partner, and he's got nothing. We got together to discuss and I asked if he saw R1 tag up. He did not. We ended up calling R1 out for an obviously controversial triple play. Runner was not happy, claiming he did tag.

I usually go by the axiom of if you don't see an out, don't call an out. This case, we didn't see a tag up, and as a result, called an out.

How would others have handled this one?

Thanx.

Even though it is likely that R1 did not tag up, if you or your partner did not actually see that he didn't tag up you have to go by the "axiom" and not honor the appeal. At that point all you can do is take a little heat from the DC and tell him/her that you can't call it if you didn't see it.

That's how I would have handled it.