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Want the group's feedback on the following: During a play an umpire blows a call. Let's say the umpire does not permit a run to score when runner overslid second base and was tagged out, for the third out, diving back to the bag, although the run crossed the plate before the tag. The umpire incorrectly ruled it as a force out, and acknowledged the run crossed before the tag. The umpire is working in a one man system, and has no partner to set him straight. After the play, the team gets upset and a player is ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct arguing the call. Before the next pitch, the Coach decides he should protest the call, as it is a misintrpretation of the playing rules. The protest is determined to be valid and the game is resumed with the run being permitted to score, and the game resuming from the end of the play in question. The team that won the protest now indicates that the ejected player should be permitted to participate in the continuation of the game, as the ejection came after the play. Their point being, since the game is being resumed from the point of interruption, the ejection can not be considered as valid, as everthing after the play is nullified when the protest is upheld. In this case the ruling is made on the field before the game continues, but what if this was league play and the protest had to be submitted in writing to be ruled on by the league officials, and a player was ejected later in the game for an act unrelated to this play. Would the ejection stand, or be waived off as it occurred after the play being protested....if the protest is upheld? The latter example may give you more cause to think, as a player might be ejected in the 5th inning in a game being played under protest for a call made in the third inning. If the protest is upheld, the team is saying that the 5th inning never happened.... My thoughts are you should not be ejected before, during, or after a protest, and all ejections should remain. What do you think, or have a rule to support one way or another.....