snookered on infield fly

[KentuckyBlue]

Will complete my 11th season this fall calling AA adult slow pitch (NSA this year after 10 years ASA). Had a quiet year EXCEPT that I had about four consecutive foul-ups on infield flies and the office now thinks I don't know jack about them. Maddening. I know the rules perfectly but the situations throw me curves. Here's the most recent one I punted.

I'm PU in this game of a summer class D tournament, being played as usual by trophy-hunting B and C teams almost exclusively. R1 on first, R2 on second, nobody out. Batter lifts a towering infield fly that from my point of view looks easily playable by F6. In fact he's camped, tapping his glove. At the fly ball's apex I call "Infield fly, batt---" and F6 suddenly turns and scampers to where the ball is actually falling, more like short center field about 25 feet behind second base. He plays it on the bounce and comes up firing to third for the force on R2, whom I saw reverse his path and hold second after hearing my call. Uh oh.

Have no idea how to make this right. Partner and I confer. We decide to resurrect R2 to third. Howls then from the defense, who wants me to explain why neither the infield fly call nor the out at third stands. I say it's false logic that it should be an either/or, but they say if the fly fell and wasn't an IF then the runner should have been in jeopardy. My "correcting a mistaken call" explanation doesn't convince. Defense protests but wins the game.

Not my finest hour, as I'm sure Mike and all y'all will tell me. (I've eaten lots of crow here before, pile on, I'm not offended.) But I just want to know what a blue with all his/her brains might have done to try to fix that screwup (and where I can find one next time I need it and don't happen to have my laptop hooked up to this board).