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Originally posted by Carl Childress
31 goes to the mound and tosses a warm-up pitch to the catcher. How is "everyone" to know he's fooling around?
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What about that play which you ignored the balk? Shouldn't a properly coached baserunner steal when the pitcher pitches out of the windup? What if R1 broke for second when F1 started his motion to pitch? You ignored the rule even though you didn't know that "everyone" knew what was going on.
In Roper's article it was very obvious that F5 was not the pitcher. The PU didn't even say anything untill the real F1 was on the rubber with the ball.
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F5 stops at the mound, picks up the baseball, and toes the rubber. With a Goose Gossage imitation he winds and throws to F2. F2 returns the pitch to F5 who tosses the ball to a now approaching F1. As F1 starts to toe the rubber and begin his wind-up, the PU barks: "What are you doing?"
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If that was my game and the opposing manager questioned why I was allowing the real F1 to pitch, I would inform him that I was getting a drink while F5 threw his pitch.
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Originally posted by Carl Childress
You know, I'm almost always amazed by your posts. You get the words generally, but you can't hear the tune.
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I could say the same thing about your posts.