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Originally Posted by jmkupka

Not questioning your mechanics, Mike (ok I guess I am), but... if there's no touch of the plate and no tag, why would I not have a "no call"? Is it because F2 was standing on the plate?

Because you are umpiring softball.

Seems to me that, in this case, calling R1 safe after she passes the plate would call attention to the fact that she didn't touch it.

No, more likely to bring the attention to the point that it was not a force play.

That's how I'd've handled it... obviously wrong... trying to improve my skills.

(ASA 8.3.B) "When a runner passes a base, the runner is considered to have touched that base."

So, lacking a tag on a non-force play, the runner is indeed safe once s/he passes home plate. Doesn't mean the defense cannot appeal the runner missing the base.