Empty glove force play

[greymule]

Anybody see the Nebraska-FSU game last night and catch this play?

Runner on 1B (can't remember which team), batter hits ground ball up the middle. F6 moves toward 2B, goes to the ground, tries to field the ball, thinks she has it in her glove, and slaps the glove on the bag while the ball lies under her. Then, realizing that the ball is somewhere other than in her glove, she reaches down, with her glove still in contact with 2B, and picks up the ball with her bare hand, well before the runner arrives. Then she tags 2B with the ball—after the runner slides in. Ump makes the out call.

The two announcers quickly determine that the ump has blown the call. One of them even explains to the viewing audience, "She has to tag the base with the hand that's holding the ball!" The announcers go on to bemoan the wonderful opportunity the batting team just lost because of the rotten call, and surmise that the coach will have something powerful to say to the ump after the inning.

Did the announcers wonder even a little why nobody argued at all?