This happened yesterday in my son's Legion state tournament game:
My son was catching, full count on batter. Good pitch, looks like it catches the plate, batter takes, umpire makes the motion like he's going to ring him up, and says "Ball!" Batter runs to first.
We chirp up in the stands a bit, not so much because it looked like a strike, but because the umpire looked like he was ringing the kid up.
It didn't matter, because the next batter popped out for the third out. But after the inning my son motions to me, wants to tell me something.
I go down to the dugout, he tells me that after the call the umpire said to him: " *&%#, I meant to say STRIKE!"
I assume this happens more than we know, but it is probably rare for the ump to admit it to the catcher. But here's my question:
Do umpires ever just reverse themselves when this happens, or would that result in losing credibility?
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