|
OK,
#1: Sorry I can't make sense of the description. It sounds like he "passed" the direction of home plate as he did his "big circle route." If that was the case it would a balk for not throwing to the batter.
#2: Is a little more difficult ONLY in the respect that OBR and FED are slightly different.
As you have descibed, *the runner on first takes off", would mean that under both rules there is an attempted advance. If there is an intended advance a pitcher can throw to what appears to be an unoccupied base for the purpose of putting out the breaking runner.
Now if R1 stops and retreats to first then we COULD possibly have the difference in the two rules.
|