Situation - runner on first and an 0 - 0 count on the batter. First pitch is a foul ball. Second pitch is a failed hit / run but runner steals second. So now we have an 0 - 2 count. Attempted pick off at 2nd and ball goes into CF so runner takes third. Next two pitches are balls to bring the count to 2 - 2. The very next pitch is a strike down the middle. Should be a strike out.
Ump now signals it at 2 - 2. We start telling him he had the count wrong and the guy was out. He tells us he has 2 - 2 but he asks his partner out in the field. He says it was strike three and the guy was out. So batter heads to dugout.
Offense coach comes out saying the plate ump had it right because that's what his book says. The defensive book has it as a strike out on three strikes. Plate ump comes over to check defense (home team) scorebook. Then he gets both books together and the home book has a strike out but visitor book has 2 - 2 count. The two umps and the scorekeepers (both high school kids) talk for a minute or two with the offensive coach up there.
Outcome of the discussion........ 2 - 2 count and batter gets to come back up to the plate. Now our head coach comes out to find out why they went against our book since it's at our field and why the field ump was being overruled. We never got a real reason why the change or missed pitch.
Thankfully we struck him out on the next pitch.
Another kinda funny part is we made a pitching change in the middle of an inning. Called time - met on the mound - brought a kid off the bench to play first while our starter first went to pitch and the starting pitcher came out to high fives from the dugout - head coach walks to the plate ump tells him the change. The other coach brought out the scorebook later after our new first baseman reached on a single saying he was an illegal sub because he wasn't reported to them.
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