When to overrule

[youngump]

Originally Posted by Snocatzdad

Runners on 2nd and 3rd 1 out. 2 man crew high school game. Base ump is sitting behind SS. Ground ball to F6 throw is wide to F3 and F3 pulls her foot to make the catch. Base umpire calls out. From Base umpires view (almost 90 feet away and bad angle) no way to see foot pulled. Plate umpire stares at 1B coach after play looking like a cat who ate a canary dying for someone to ask what he saw.

Now IMO what should have happened is that the OC should have asked the Base umpire to check with his partner to see if his partner saw the foot pulled.

My question is at what threshold should the PU speak up to get the call right without being asked. It's no shame on the BU he missed the call, BU was in a lousy position because of the lead runners, to see the pulled foot.

Not long after I started I had a play like this where I was PU. I did the same thing this PU did of staring down there not believing what I had seen. I realized that it didn't make any sense to stand there and hustled back to my position. I felt bad about it afterward because had anybody in the park not been busy yelling at my partner about his call, they might have seen me as selling him up the river and I've made it a point not to do it since. I'd recommend the same for the PU in your scenario. [My partner was a solid umpire who happily came to me about the call once the coach asked him and we got it right.]
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