Falling Onto the Fielder...and Not Getting Up

[Manny A]

Situation: I'm flying solo on a 10U rec game. R1 on first. Batter bunts down the first base line. F3 comes in and fields the ball, then throws to F4 covering first. The throw takes F4 into the BR's path. She makes the catch to retire the BR, and then there's a crash between the BR and F4. F4 goes down and the BR lands on top of her.

F4 makes absolutely no effort to get up, despite the fact that R1, now on second base, takes off for third. She lies there crying while the retired BR stays on her. The collision was very minor from my perspective, so I don't call Time. R1 makes it to third, and there is still no effort on F4's part to try to get up. The defensive team's coaches are yelling for Time from the first base dugout.

I still don't call Time because it doesn't appear to me that the results of the crash are serious enough to warrant it. The retired BR finally gets up off F4, and F4 continues to lie there whimpering. The third base coach sends R1 home, and she scores easily.

I finally call Time when R1 scores, and allow the coaches onto the field to check on F4. They start complaining that I should have killed play to check on the seriousness of their player's injury (she was fine). They also complained that the retired BR prevented F4 from making any plays on R1, and I should either rule R1 out or send her back to second base. I countered that I didn't see F4 make any kind of attempt to get up and make a play on R1, and that the retired BR intentionally held F4 down.

Come to find out later that F4 had some kind of brittle bone affliction, and that's why the coaches wanted to check on her right away. They also told me she is very prone to emotional breakdowns when she gets hurt in any way. Yes, I felt like the Big Bad Umpire with no compassion.

So, should I have penalized the retired BR for interference? Again, I didn't see that she did anything other than just lie there after the crash. Yeah, she probably could have gotten up a lot sooner, but because I didn't see F4 do anything but lie there, I didn't think there was any violation.