Last week my son's high school team was playing our crosstown rival. Bottom of 4 two outs they hit a routine grounder to short. The shortstop threw the ball up the line and my son stretched toward home plate and caught the throw, which beat the runner by two steps. The umpire was behind the mound and was in perfect position to make the call. As he raised his hand to signal "out" the first base coach began yelling "he pulled his foot". The ump hesitated then looked to the home plate ump for help. He was almost in our dugout going to get a drink and hadn't seen anything. After 2o seconds or so he called the runner safe. Next batter hit a grand slam! If he saw the throw beat the runner, but didn't see a pulled foot, shouldn't he have called an out?
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Absolutely correct Jimmy.