Checked Swing Appeal After a Mound Visit

[Mudder]

OBR, can a team make a checked swing appeal after a mound visit?  

On the previous pitch of course, and assuming there have been no intervening plays, given that a mound visit is not a play

[Velho]

I think you answered your own question (with which I agree). Appealable before the next pitch, play, or end of inning. Batter is responsible to know they are at jeopardy. Cite below.

Second order question: Does the ball have to be live to appeal to BU? 

 

OBR 8.02(c) Comment (emphasis mine): 

Appeals on a half swing may be made only on the call of ball and when asked to appeal, the home plate umpire must refer to a base umpire for his judgment on the half swing. Should the base umpire call the pitch a strike, the strike call shall prevail. Appeals on a half swing must be made before the next pitch, or any play or attempted play. If the half swing occurs during a play which ends a half-inning, the appeal must be made before all infielders of the defensive team leave fair territory.

Baserunners must be alert to the possibility that the base umpire on appeal from the plate umpire may reverse the call of a ball to the call of a strike, in which event the runner is in jeopardy of being out by the catcher’s throw. Also, a catcher must be alert in a base stealing situation if a ball call is reversed to a strike by the base umpire upon appeal from the plate umpire.

The ball is in play on appeal on a half swing.

[grayhawk]

If PU appeals to me after a mound visit, unless the batter screwed himself into the ground, my answer will be no.

[MadMax]

10 hours ago, Velho said:

Second order question: Does the ball have to be live to appeal to BU? 

No. Numerous check swing appeals have been conducted on a HBP. HBP makes the ball instantly Dead. An appeal is (or should be) conducted soon after. 

Best example is Giancarlo Stanton, while playing for the Marlins, taking a pitch to the face from a Brewers pitcher. He was judged to have struck at the ball on check-swing appeal… while being attended to on the ground. 

[SeeingEyeDog]

Here is the Stanton play that @MadMax was referencing...sucks for G but, yes...I have a swing here.

~Dawg