Jimurray

And the bullpen doesn’t “need” a guardian. FED did have a POE one year recommending a helmet for the protector but never made it a rule. We would have to ask if they cover that area as dead ball territory at the Plate Conference. FED does define the bullpen as an area protected by a fence.

It wasn’t the entire crew. I don’t think they had a crew conference before going in and left U1 on field for monitoring team conferences. Looks like crew chief then came out with PU and announced his judgment.

Participating in a Facebook baseball rule discussion is crazy. Maybe try one post to enlighten but do not then begin to argue with the idiots.

Appeals can not be accidental. Tags of forced bases or 1B can be.

And that balk is in the book: “6-4-e. taking a hand off the ball while in a set position (6-1-3), unless he pitches to the batter or throws to a base or he steps toward and feints a throw to ­second or third base as in (b); or” Which applies once F1 is established in the set foot position. At that point I also allow the OBR interp of momentary adjustment but I don’t think FED agrees.

If I remember correctly a past MLB illegal reentry penalty was missmanaged.

It’s not if it’s foul but it would do you good to read the comments to the OBR definition of infield fly.

@ManinBlue https://taso.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Baseball-Memo-Running-Lane-Violation-0592024.pdf hopkins requires a throw in the memo

Having ripped the scorekeeping pages out of my Rulebooks to use them to, you know what, I am not qualified to answer but I’m going to Facebook mode where every swng dck can post his opinion. A K does not have to be an out and is not in your OP. The K and FC does not result in a fourth out.

I had a partner eject a coach who actually was yelling at his players but my partner, a long way away, thought it was directed at him. I told partner what was said and to who and he reversed his ejection.

You are correct. They kicked it. Small screen I can’t see no stop. Also U2 killed the first balk while the ball was in play. Didn’t matter when batter was put out at 1B. But could have mattered and adds to argument that FED is correct in keeping dead ball balks.

The rule is meant to prevent “running into the pitch”. We allow breaking contact repositioning the pivot foot angle as long as there is no advantage of gaining momentum in that lift.

What removes the force on the BR?

Actually we need to know if it’s a traditional, hybrid, or sideways windup before determining which way he’d be facing. 😀

Looks like a “super slot”. Used when they are squeezed by the lean. Not recommended for us amateurs.

Council bought whatever that crew told him and said it was the right call after the game. The crew will be along shortly to give you their explanation. Meanwhile most everyone thought it would have been ordinary effort except for the sun.

The sun and natural darkness are not “weather” conditions. MLB has ruled that way at least from the 90s when Jaska and Roder were writing interps for MLB.

That’s not a balk. The free foot can step in any direction in OBR. NCAA has an inane interp that doesnt allow a traditional windup pitcher to take that stutter step toward home and would balk that pitcher if the stutter strep went more to home instead of 1B. Most pitchers these days in the traditional perpendicular windup position don’t do the traditional step back windup delivery. They take a stutter step to allow turning their pivot foot sideways and actually deliver from a sideways or hybrid pivot foot orientation.

He isn’t sideways.

At a 2006 Desert Classic Jim Evan’s was asked if a runner could crash a fielder waiting to tag him. He said there was no rule against that. MLB has since addressed collisions at HP and slides at forced bases. Nothing else.

OBR which you haven’t completely finished reading yet. 😀

Only way to possibly avoid R1 ending up on 2B is a soft bouncing lob to the base.

Evan’s used to cover this triviality in detail in his clinics. Possibly to avoid sits like this:

The site never would let me change email so I signed up as alter. My computer signs in as alter. My phone recently let me sign in and change email on the old account. So when I use phone it’s the old me.

If “that doesnt matter” is a correct lip read they kicked it. We have to adjust the Wendelstedt interp to this level but they have any Pro F4 able to make a play in the normal infield config.