[mick]

Originally posted by jicecone

Not exactly sure about LL rules however;

1. What is the "normal appeal procedure"? A lot of people believe that the pitcher must get on the rubber and then make an appeal. The only reason it is required that the pitcher get on the rubber, is to put the ball back in play. If there is no time out then an appeal can still be made by going over to the bag an announcing your intentions. So F1 can do the normal appeal before getting on the rubber if there is no time out or do the normal procedure after going on the rubber to get time in.

2. I believe LL follows OBR rules on this, there is no such thing as a dead ball appeal, only at the High School level. Therefore calling time out will kill the status of a live ball and then the pitcher must get back on the rubber to make the ball live.

3. The ball is live, if the defense is 100% sure that the runner will be out, then they should make the appeal otherwise, that may have to play on the runner, or both.

Nice explanation, jicecone.