- Apr 22, 2015
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This was an 18u State tournament, late innings in a 2-1 game, and here is the situation. We have runners on 2nd & 3rd with 1 out. Batter grounds out to SS, runner from 3rd scores. As first baseman catches the ball the defensive team starts yelling in joy and tells the girls to hustle to the dugout. They roll the ball to the pitchers rubber and head for the dugout. Seeing this my runner from 2nd, who was already on 3rd, heads for home and also scores. Here is where it gets interesting, home plate umpire has that there were 2-outs, base umpire is a fairly new umpire and has the correct 1 out on her clicker, except she sees the home plate tap his forearm indicating there was 2-outs so she changed her clicker, without asking first about their discrepancy in outs. So home plate umpire goes to defensive team, who was also the home team, since that is official score keeper and they say yes they only had it as 2 outs also. Home plate umpire comes to me and says that he is not going to allow the runner from 2nd to score because of the miscommunication, but that he wants to talk with the UIC first and see what their opinion is. UIC gets involved and they determine that both runners have to go back to 2nd & 3rd and the ground ball out was just a dead ball out and told me that was the only fair thing to do. I argued that they at least had to give me the runner from 3rd for scoring. But to no avail. So the opposing team made a mistake, the umpiring crew made a mistake and yet we were punished for it Any other umpires want to chime in on this call that was made, or how you would have handled it??