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Originally posted by ChampaignBlue
"I still doesn't make any sense to me, but "
I was that way until I got to thinking, we don't have a "look back" rule in slow pitch so what do we do if one runner is stopped with the ball on the mound? We call time and send him back. Since we have called time any other runners who hadn't reached a new base would have to be sent back as well. As for basing it on the time of the catcher's throw I guess the rational is much the same as on an overthrow.
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Think of it this way. Why should a runner on 1B, not be permitted to steal if the runner on 3B never leaves the base? Same thing with a runner on 2B not stealing 3B if the runner on 1B isn't moving?
I would like to see this change next season.