- May 29, 2015
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Just teach your girls to go to the base and stay there though. If the girl turns around and just goes back to the dugout I don't think the umpire has the recourse to rule the girl safe with the defender on the bag with the ball, actually she is probably out as soon as she leaves the baseline for the dugout. Now if she is on the bag without being tagged out and the umpire tells her she is out and must go to the dugout then you have recourse. Actually this is a super simple win on protest assuming the UIC knows the rule or takes a minute to go read it.
All you have to do is think about it for two seconds the umpire yells "the batter is out" at that point nothing is forcing anyone anywhere and runners may advance at their own risk.
An umpire error resulting in the player being tagged out because of the error would be correctable. So even if the player wandered off/went back to the dugout, the umpires could negate the erroneous out call and place her back on base. Now, they may place her back on first (not second) if they feel she wouldn’t have gotten second base anyway.
And the umpire should not automatically call the batter out. What if the ball goes foul?