I think that this may stir up some controversey...
Runner on second one out, fly ball in foul territory approaching dead ball area/stands (no fence), third baseman catches ball falls to the ground, gets hurt, in obvious pain, after about 5 seconds of obvious extreme pain, drops the ball (I am the only one that sees this because it was subtle and everyone was blocked by this from the way he was on the ground. Runner had tagged up from second and scored since no one realized that he kept going. Since the player is being attended to I tell my partner what I saw and he said that we will rule it a catch, I then asked if he fell into the dead ball area, because the runner would have had only one base then, and he said he stayed in the whole time. After we make the ruling, the defense appeals that R2 left early, I had that he did not, so they got all ****ed off. This is one of those situations that I'm ****ed that he said that he wanted to call it a catch because the fielder did not voluntarily take the ball out of his glove, it literally rolled out...however, if I had called no catch, the correct call, everyone would have went crazy.
To top it off the runner on second was only on second base because of a possession catch/no catch ruling. He was stealing second and was very out, but the ball skipped to the second baseman on a hop, when he went to show it to me, the ball was moving in the glove, and I was nit-picking, it was moving so I yelled "SAFE NO POSSESSION OF THE BALL", try explaing that to the kid who just showed you and the whole crowd the ball, but it was moving in his glove...anyways...this was a CRAZY game, same game as previous post wehere my partner got followed to his car...In the second inning, I also came up too quick on a call and called a BR out, after a second I realized he had it by a quarter step...it was pretty close, but I should have had it.
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