Injured umpire

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve

First action should be to contact your assignor, if there is one, and let him/her know. Let the person responsible to the school decide if there is any option. While unlikely, there just might be someone nearby that would be available to fill the spot on short notice without you risking further injury, and being more mobile for the teams' benefit.

After that is what you did.

The AD is the assigner for that game, and he was too busy dealing with a no-show umpire situation for his baseball game at the time. There was nobody else in the area available that he uses as I have done all 4 home games at the school each of the last several years.