Protest ruling

Yes, I have served on protest committees before as the Umpiring coordinator for several tourneys...

I believe you already know the answer to this...there is usually no advantage to filing or reviewing or upholding a protest on a rule misapplication if the call in question does not adversely affect the protesting team's chances of winning the game.....

But the committee will decide if you do move on to protest....so here is the OBR rule on protesting games...

4.19 PROTESTING GAMES. Each league shall adopt rules governing procedure for protesting a game, when a manager claims that an umpire's decision is in violation of these rules.
No protest shall ever be permitted on judgment decisions by the umpire. In all protested games, the decision of the League President shall be final.

Even if it is held that the protested decision violated the rules, no replay of the game will be ordered unless in the opinion of the League President the violation adversely affected the protesting team's chances of winning the game.

thanks...that's what I figured. Whether the game was affected can be tricky sometimes.

Not all that tricky. Just determine, did it have an adverse effect on the outcome. That's why you protest, just in case. Say the runner wound up scoring anyway, no bearing regardless of W or L.

Ex: R1 1 out, your team down by a run.
Fly ball to RF, R1 goes halfway to 2nd, see's the catch (2 outs) and is diving into 1B as F9 attempts to throw him out. The ball sails OOP.
The award would be 3B, umpire awards 2nd only, giving you the ole, he was going back to 1B (I've heard it to many times believe me).

You protest, next batter hit's a dinger, no bearing. Or K's, either way one could safely say, it had no bearing on the outcome.

Now say the same play and the first pitch to the next batter was a WP and now R2 advances to 3RD, the batter then K's, definetly could have had a bearing.

Now same play with 0 outs, and the next batter flies out to deep CF and you lose 1-0, easy to say the call had a bearing on the outcome.

You were down 13-0 at the time, wind up loosing 21-2, no bearing.

You win the game, no bearing.

But as others have stated, somebodies going to learn the correct ruling regardless if it's replayed or not, so worth the effort/s IMO.