Game Management Situation.... I fell on my ass

[clasonater]

Top of 7 (7inning game) home team winning 3-2.  R1 and R2 with no outs.  I am U1 approximately 6-8 feet from first TOP.  Catcher attempts a back pick to second.  R2 back in safely.  R1 sticks himself in no mans land (I think it was a botched hit and run judging from the hitters performance in the series, the horrible swing, and the runners on base.  pretty rare with a guy on second though.  It wasn't a double steal)  F6 snaps to first from second.  When I take a hard step to plant and turn, to get the base between me and the runner, the next thing I know, I am on the ground parallel to the baseline. This was not a skid and topple over deal.  This was a feet were above my head, Steve Atwater just earholed me coming across the middle as i got hung out to dry trainwreck.  I don't know how, but I managed to get a really good look at the play as I hit the ground.  My face was literally a couple feet from it.  I was one hundred percent sure R1 was safe.  Funny thing is though, the first thing i thought of, laying on the ground, was damnit, you were not set during the critical action of the play.  The second was, what the hell just happened.  And third, I have to get up and make a call.  I stand up and signal safe, and the place just ignites.  There was maybe 500-600 people there.  probably all drunk because of a beer promo.  The coach comes running out and immediately starts asking for help, over and over.  Bottom line, I wasn't going to go get help.  I felt I was sure of the call and I didn't want to drag my partners into this bomb I just lit.  It was my ship and I was goin with it.  HC knew it and I knew it, that he had to go.  He went.  Then the dugout, I let them chew on me for a little while, than I got the ring leader and they shut it down. 

So, I have already called my regular season coordinator on this and he said it may have been a good idea to not only get help, but preemptively stop the coach from coming across the field and get the crew together.  The coach may not have stayed, but it would have given more time to settle the crowd and make the crew look better, particularly in this situation.  Thinking back on it now, I feel he is totally right as always.  I didn't know what to do, it all happened really fast, and I just went on gut instinct. 

Has this happened to anybody before, and how did you guys handle it?

[maven]

This happens all the time. Get up, call time, get together, tell them you're 100%, break the huddle, make the call.

No big deal, unless you're hurt, in which case, it sucks for you.

[UmpCast_Wes]

From the sound of things it seems like everyone in the place thought you couldn't see the play.  Even though you did, I think it would have been a good idea to get together before a call was made.  It never hurts to get their input for something like that anyway.  Who knows what you may have missed as you fell.  That's an instance where I can definitely see a manager getting himself thrown out when you refuse to get help.  The call was correct, and now you know how to better "sell" the call next time so maybe there are fewer ejections.

[scrounge]

Yep, this may have been one of the rare times where it's in your enlightened self-interest to get together, even if purely for optics. Luckily it hasn't happened to me. Yet.

[clasonater]

Thanks for the input guys, i'm gonna have to chalk this one up as a learning experience.  One piece of advice for those who havent fallen on their ass.   Have gum or candy or lifesavers or something after it happens to occupy yourself, because it was extremely hard not to chuckle afterwords during the game because of what just happened.  My crew thought it was hilarious.