Everyone agrees with that. But when does it become an illegal pitch and thus a dead ball -- when the pitcher takes the extra step. At that point, the runner has already left first base. The runner left BEFORE the illegal pitch and the dead ball. As Blue said at the game today, there were two infractions. The first was runner leaving early. Result runner out. The second was illegal pitch and delayed dead ball. Offense given option of penalty enforcement or result of the play.
*take with a grain of salt. Further research says the runner leaving early would be a dead ball. Nothing happens after this, so no illegal pitch now. Unfortunately, runner leaving early is reviewable, so if reviewed and the leaving early was deemed to happen before the illegal pitch, the runner is out and the pitch didn’t happen, which means no ball either. Kind of bs in that the illegal pitch caused the runner to leave early and the illegal pitch is what was called on the field, but its a screwy rule. Was a ball still added to the count? It shouldn’t have been, because if the runner left early, that’s the end of the play. No pitch, illegal or not, thrown or not, counts after that. I am not as concerned as you are about this becoming a trend. It does appear that the runner should be awarded a free base, similar to the balk in baseball. Timing this up perfectly would be almost impossible and if you screwed it up, you give the batter a ball and runner a free base anyway. Way too risky to try to make it a play you’d run.
Well, then you'd have to work for the clown that wants to go to Mars so I'd rather stay and ump in the SEC, no matter how inept I might be.
I believe it’s incompetent umpiring that allows that to happen also. No way that would fly on the baseball field. They’d be charged for a visit.
I'm not so sure Gabi left before the extra step. In any event, the ruling, even if correct and I'm not convinced it was, has to be changed.
I thought the rule at some point was on a illegal pitch that the batting team had their choice of taking the result of the play or a ball being added to the count. Oh wait that was travel softball.
Definitely agree that illegal pitch *should* trump leaving early. Although it took Blue 35 minutes to figure it out at last week's game, runners may advance one bases as the result of acts which occurred while the ball was live, before the ball was declared dead. That's why the Arkansas batter was awarded first when the ball was declared dead for touching her (erroneously). Today, Comia leaving 1B early occurred prior to the delayed dead ball. This actually came up in game one. Their pitcher got messed up and didn't release the ball. Upon her next step it became an illegal pitch and dead ball. She laughed about it.
I. Love. Gabi. Comia. I think I love her like a certain few people love Taylor. lol. (I mean, Taylor is phenomenal… no question about that.) I just feel like she is this little orange and blue sparkling spark plug and has the potential to be huge for the program. And, she looked pretty damn good at SS today.
A while back, I saw a play at third where the runner was safe and the third baseman fell on him, pushing him off the bag, but kept the tag on. On the field, the rule is that it’s umpire discretion as to how the play is ruled. The way the rules are written, review doesn’t leave room for discretion. The player is either off the bag and tagged, or not. Umps on the field called runner safe and said he was pushed off the bag, review overturned to out because review does not allow for umpire discretion. This seems like one of those calls. On the field, live, it’s fairly obvious what happened. Illegal pitch is the correct call. Review for the runner leaving early does not leave any room for discretion though. Still can’t have both, so if runner is out, there’s no longer an illegal pitch. If they called both, that is still an incorrect ruling, imo. I don’t think this is something you could plan for and duplicate though, so don’t think there’s any worries on that front.
No idea how you perceived that as a slight towards you? My point was numerous calls haven’t gone our way and in some instances it’s been an absolute clown show. As they say it all balances out in the end. I hope so because then a number of calls, when it matters most will go our way.
Ava pitched her best game this year. She made quality pitches when she needed to. Ole Miss only had one earned run. They did not barrel up many balls. Most hit balls were on the ground or pop ups. Ava also had 4 strikeouts, only 2 Walks and no HBPs. She scattered 9 singles (mostly seeing eye hits) and gave up only 1 extra base hit, a double. It was a solid outing.
I agree but I don’t like you insinuating that I love Taylor…I love Taylor lol! It’s fun to have a favorite and I always do going back to Megan Bush. But I love them all! These kids grow up in front of our eyes, it’s hard not to think of them as family. This program has brought so much joy into my life over the years and I’m forever thankful for that! I just hate it when they struggle and there’s nothing I can do to help.
Stats are misleading and often the scorer errs on the wrong side imo....holtorf should have twice as many errors as listed
Discretion, common sense or lack there of. I’m a fan of common sense, I understand some plays are really weird but cmon blue, get it right. Rule book might as well be pirate codes now. Not really law matey, more like guidelines arghh.
