Backstory - So with all the rain (and hail) Indy received yesterday, I call up the school this afternoon to confirm my JV plate game. Turns out games on, plus they switched the game from JV to Varsity. Get to the field and not only is it now a Varsity game, but both teams are in a three way tie for first with only 2 more games until sectionals.
Situation - 1-1 count, pitch comes in high and inside and I've got the batter swinging as the catcher comes up to catch the ball. My judged a swing and from what I saw before the catcher came up, I thought It was an obvious swing so I didn't point out the swing, just gave my swinging strike mechanic with no verbal. Catcher asks me to check with my partner and I told him I've got a strike. Give the new count 1-2 and the batter steps out and says "that was a strike? The umpire on 1st signaled safe." Apparently when I came up with the strike my partner had a brain fart and thought I was coming to him on the appeal and signaled no swing. Now the HC wants to talk, and I tell him that I have a swinging strike, that I didn't ask for help, and that we were staying with my call. He wanted to appeal my strike, which I told him couldn't be done and he went back to his box.
At the half my partner came down and told me that he heard the bench call for an appeal and when he saw me come up he just had the brain fart and came up safe, then realized that I pointed with my right hand and didn't verbalize the appeal to him.
So my question is in this situation should I have given him the ball since my partner came up with the signal by mistake?
