1. We had a play that kind of took away the momentum of our team during a late rally. We had B1 at bat and R1 on 1st base. B1 hits a long fly ball to r/c who makes a spectacular catch. R1 was kinda slow and failed to make it to 2nd base before being thrown out on a 8-6 putout.
How would the batter be scored? Our scorer says the batter is credited with a fielders choice and the runner is obviously out. I say the batter gets a base hit and the runner is out on a 8-6 putout.
2. The second incident occurred when the opposing team was on defense. We had a runner on 3rd base. A pop fly to center was hit very shallow. The center fielder dives to make a great catch. Our runner goes back to 3rd to tag up and scores easily. The opposing team starts yelling to the players on the field to throw to 3rd to challenge that the tag up didn't occur. BOTH umpires stated they were focusing on the catch and did not watch for the tag up. They called the runner safe but the reversed themselves for the home team. There logic was that since they didn't see the tag up then it didn't happen -- so the batter was ruled out.
I stated that was not the correct way to handle. The umpires initially ruled the runner safe and then revered themselves after the home team started crying. HOW CAN YOU REVERSE SOMETHING THAT YOU ADMITTED NOT SEEING??? The umpires then state that because they missed it, the tag must have been missed.
I was wondering has anyone ever dealt with this before and how did you handle it? BTW, this was a high school tournament using CIF umpires.