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I agree with MrBlue2U. If the runner is gullible enough to fall for it, then he should be out. I'm 38 and still play in 2 wooden bat leagues and I would never jump off the base without knowing where the freaking ball is. I don't give a crap what everyone else is yelling, ultimately it's my ass that is gonna look silly out there so I pay attention. Plus when you dive back into 2nd, you should be looking away from the incoming throw and you would see if it gets away or not (and keeps you from getting hit in the face).

Wow, I thought this kind of ignorance was only at my Little League. I had runners on 1st and 2nd stealing on the pitch. The batter foul tipped it into the catcher's mitt and I gave the correct foul tip signal. As I look up the runners are going back to 1st and 2nd. The head coach in the 3rd base box told them that since it was a foul they had to go back........ and the defense let them! Didn't even make an attempt to tag them?!?!? Larry will like this one!

This just drives me nuts because I'm with you guys in the fact that I do think he intends to come set at the chest and he does it every time so there's no deception meant on the runner but dog gone it if he doesn't pause slightly at the waist from time to time. Enough that I know some high school coach would be yelling his lungs out for a balk.

Here's the link to the video on my Youtube page. It's about 5 min long and gives several examples (when the camera angle is right).

I watched the first outing for M. Tanaka of the Yankees on Saturday. I'm a big Yankees fan so I was very excited to see what he's got against MLB hitters. BUT my initial take away was that it looks like he comes close to balking when he's in the stretch. He appears to come set twice. Once at his belt and then again at his chest. If I was doing a high school game and had a kid do this, I would probably be inclined to want to call it. You guys think he gets away with it because his name is Tanaka? I've got it on video and will try to post Ina few minutes. I was surprised no one else has caught this yet.

I'm sure a lot of you watched this game. 1st inning Dempster throws one behind the back of ARod, then throws 2 more inside and with the count 3-0 goes ahead and puts one off of his elbow. Home plate ump immediately warns both benches and then tossed Girardi for probably saying some magic words. So now the Yanks can't retaliate, lost their manager, and Dempster is still in the game. Fast forward to about the 7th or 8th inning. Yanks C Stewart totally whiffs on an inside pitch to the batter and it nails home plate ump right in the throat guard. No runners on so no harm done to the Yanks. Retaliation on the ump??

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Besides what was already posted, I would only add the following in reference to your labeling runners. They are labeled by the base they are on. R1 is always on 1st Base R2 is always on 2nd Base R3 is always on 3rd Base This is regardless of any runner not being on any of the bases. I believe the way you are labeling them is a old Fed way and always caused confusion. So in your sit; Scored R3 and advanced R1 to 2nd Base. He now becomes R2. Yes, I was using the old way. Thanks for the update because I didn't realize it had changed.

Thanks MW94. It would be helpful if the league would have supplied me with the 2013 edition. I still have the 2011....... I know, I know, I'm a big boy and should have already ordered it myself....... I just got on LL.org and bought one.

Thanks for all of the replies. Remember I'm just looking for the LL answer. If this wasn't my home league I would leave the coaching to the coaches, however none of the coaches know the rules very well as about 4/6 didn't even start learning the game until their kid started playing. I had one coach make his 2 base runners go back after executing a double steal just because I signaled tip (catcher caught ball) on strike 2....... And the other team just let let them! Another coach didn't know that you can't run on dropped 3rd strike with 1st occupied and less than 2 outs. Anyway, so if I'm understanding the consensus correctly: I don't say anything until after the pitch is thrown and then I go correct the player? Pitch counts and no runners advance due to penalty? No penalty for multiple occurrences? Just seems odd at this age level?

So I'm in the field umpiring a 13-15 (Jr league) year old All-Star game. We are sanctioned under LL rules. First baseman decides he wants to be lazy and stands behind first toward the coaches box with both feet in foul territory at time of the pitch. I call illegal pitch and advance R1 from 3rd and R2 from 1st. After double checking the rule book this morning, I'm wondering whether I'm right or not. It says "at start of game and when ball is put into play" 4:03. I would normally have missed this but I was already upset at the lack of effort shown by the team in the field so I was also trying to get their attention. Never mind that my partner never properly puts the ball in play after stoppages, was I right to call this? I always thought it was time of pitch and only catcher can be in foul territory.

Had this happen to me tonight. I'm behind the plate. 1 out. R1 at 2nd R2 at 1st. Ground ball to F6, he bobbles the ball so badly that his throw to 2nd is too late to get the force on R2. R2 slides so hard that he overslides the base and into the fielder who is hurt and does not tag him. He quickly crawls back to the bag before he is tagged. What would you call?

Man, that's a tough one but I'd have to call him out just for the fact that he went around his teammate in the batter's box. I think if he would have taken a sec to process the info he would have seen that the batter had moved to the back of the box during the action and the kid went around him so it would seem he would have had to have gone out of the base path to take that line to the plate. At least I think that would have been a good argument to make to the opposing side.

I may be totally off but I thought the whole purpose for the new age necklaces and bracelets were to help older, injured, golfers with aches and pains? Something to do with magnetic properties in the jewelry. Now I see teens and LL kids wearing them? Makes no sense to me.