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Originally posted by surferfletch
I admit I had a similar occurence where I was the runner. We were playing a school for juvenile delinquents in a JV high school game on a Saturday morning. The pitcher attempted to pick me off and the first baseman held the ball long enough for me to stand up, dust myself off, look over to the mound to see the pitcher staring off into the distance, then start to take my lead. I was then tagged out. That first baseman was ecstatic! They are probably still telling that story at the school! I always let my runner know where the ball was after that. I saw in another thread that if the pitcher had been on the rubber without the ball, I would've gotten second on a balk.
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I pulled that as a first baseman one time in a Babe Ruth game. I feinted the throw back to the mound, and the kid gets up off the base and takes his lead without ever looking at the pitcher. I tag him out, but of course the BU (who was like 60 and admitted to me that he couldn't see anymore) wasn't looking. Luckily, the PU saw it and called the kid out.
Same umpire, same 2 teams -- I'm on 2B and I see the opposing pitcher is going from the windup. When he starts his motion, I break for 3B; he stops halfway to the plate and throws to third. The umpire calls me out. I go about halfway ballistic because it should have been a balk; PU calls the balk and puts me on third.
Sad to say, I had to umpire with this guy a few years later.