Originally Posted by IEBSBL:
Here is where the coach that lost erred. Once the game starts all of the decisions on play is left up to the umpires. He should have immediately pointed out that they did have diamond dry and tarps to take care of the field when the rain began to fall. Now obviously I wasn't there but if you can take pictures of the items on the way out then they were there on the way in, IMO. As coaches we know that you have to appeal a game before the umpires leave the field. It is horrible that this happened and you can expect to see a rule change somewhere down the line.
I don't see a rule change in the future. The rule is the way it is precisely to ensure that gamesmanship between the sides don't determine the endpoint of a game.