DW and I disagree on a point, and I think this may be the very rare case where I am actually right.
We are watching a game, DD playing. Usually she pitches, but that game she was used as a utility player. By the end of the 3rd, she had already played 3B, SS CF and 1B. We were watching right behind the fence at 1B, close enough to talk to the 1B coaches on both teams.
OK, with one out, coach moves DD from CF to 1B. Runner on first, batter hits a fly shot to SS, runner advances, SS catches the ball, throws back to 1B long before the runner returns, clear out. Ump calls it safe. At the beginning of the next inning some of us were discussing the play with the 1B coach for the other team, he said, "right, she was out by a mile".
DD thinks the 1B ump for the other team should've told the ump his runner was out. I don't think a coach has the duty to argue against his own team, even for bad calls. The week before we got a bad call in our favor, and our coaches didn't argue the call (the coaches for the other team did, to no avail.)
So, who is right? DW who says the coach should correct the umpire for a bad call that favors his team, or me for saying that is not the coach's job?
Also, have any of you coaches ever argued against your own team, except in a friendly?
We are watching a game, DD playing. Usually she pitches, but that game she was used as a utility player. By the end of the 3rd, she had already played 3B, SS CF and 1B. We were watching right behind the fence at 1B, close enough to talk to the 1B coaches on both teams.
OK, with one out, coach moves DD from CF to 1B. Runner on first, batter hits a fly shot to SS, runner advances, SS catches the ball, throws back to 1B long before the runner returns, clear out. Ump calls it safe. At the beginning of the next inning some of us were discussing the play with the 1B coach for the other team, he said, "right, she was out by a mile".
DD thinks the 1B ump for the other team should've told the ump his runner was out. I don't think a coach has the duty to argue against his own team, even for bad calls. The week before we got a bad call in our favor, and our coaches didn't argue the call (the coaches for the other team did, to no avail.)
So, who is right? DW who says the coach should correct the umpire for a bad call that favors his team, or me for saying that is not the coach's job?
Also, have any of you coaches ever argued against your own team, except in a friendly?