Sorry Blue

Its Nice of you to offer an apology.....(we dont get many of those)....but in this case it is not neccesary.....In reality it is also the umpires fault......He, more than anyone on the field, needs to be aware of how many outs there are......

I had this exact thing happen to me........called third strike with runner on third.....catcher hops up and heads for the dugout and tosses the ball to me.........It hit me in the chest protector and dropped in the dirt...... I stepped back from it and said nothing............ R3 scored easily......

The Umpire should not have caught the ball.........and there are times when you deserve the flak you get when you make a mistake...

Also not sure what rules you were using but of course in NFHS rules the ball was dead.....

But in NCAA or OBR.....the ball is still live!........

I had a similar situation happen to me in college. I was batting and ball four got by the catcher and went to the backstop, I took off hard for first, and when I looked for the ball, it was still at the backstop, so I kept going.

As I approached second, the 2bm had a ball, but it wasn't the passed ball, that was still at the BS, so I kept running, and he looked at me like I had three heads. I ended up coming around and scoring. The original ball was still at the backstop. The 2bm, had tagged me, but I knew he had the wrong ball.

Let's just say the was a long discussion after the play It was kind of funny, might a well laugh right. The ump had pulled a ball out of his bag after the passed ball, and gave it to the catcher, who seeing me headed for second promptly threw down, and I was tagged, but kept going.

Long and short of it, the ump said he made a mistake, called the ball dead and sent me back to first.

priceless just priceless