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A few years back, when I was first starting out, I was working the dish and if I remember correctly there was a play at home where the catcher tagged the runner coming in and somewhere in there he dropped the ball. I called him out not knowing this and people went crazy. I wasn't even considering changing the call, but after the teams were in their dugouts, I went and talked to my partner and asked him what he saw. At this point were were talking near the mound and the coach from the offense came out too. I did overturn the call to safe. Should umpires ever do that? Even if they should was the wait too long?

Haha Yeah, I thought that was interesting too. The forum censored it. not me lol

I asked another more experienced NCAA umpire pal of mine about the call and he said if he has one foot in the box the pitcher can pitch only when the batter has called time and the umpire has granted it.

Thanks guys. I feel like an idiot after messing up that illegally batted ball call.

I never thought I should be looking for trouble, but the call was there. I knew it would make the coaches angry, but doesn't a call still need to be made?

It is not your job to keep people in the game. If an umpire has very few ejections (i.e. less than 1 every 100 games worked), that umpire is probably doing something wrong. A person should get ejected for arguing, if they keep arguing despite being given a warning to stop. If an umpire warns for someone to stop doing something and the person does not stop, the person ejected themselves. I would like to know if the person who posted the thread gave a warning before ejecting. Yes I did. When he argued about the first call I said nothing, but I gave him a lot of time to cool down after the illegally batted ball. He just wouldn't stop. I gave him a warning, he kept bringing it up in an angry fashion. I ejected him.

9 Year olds.

Well the top two teams were playing. number one team is really nice, two team is always yelling about something. Okay...so there was an incident in the field where someone could have thrown the ball multiple places and the field ump didn't happen to be watching third base when he made the play. I was watching it, I just didn't have the angle i could have had if I was in the field, but I had to make a call since he didn't even see it. i called the number 2 team's player out and they went apeSH*#.they said if neither of us saw it I should have sent him back to second which is not how baseball works.so they kinda went crazy there but I let it slide.this was the second game of the day so the chalk was a little worn and in some spots not even there, but I could distinguish some sort of a batters box apparently the kid had no idea. so the pitcher went on and the kid hit a foul ball with is foot entirely out of the boxif it was close I would have let it slide since it was sorta hard to make out, but he had me and the catcher next to the backstop so it was obvious even if he couldn't see the box he should have been up to the plate.anyway I called an illegally batted ball and the batter was out.coaches went ape **** saying i should have drawn a box. even though that is not my job. and it was apparent he was out of the box. two board members and the head umpire came and backed me up and we both told them to just let it go and that what was done was done.anyway the head coach just wouldn't shut up about either calls so i just ejected him.This story might be sorta splotchy... any questions or comments would be appreciated. Thanks