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Originally posted by fwump
I am on board with the concept of "preventitive umpiring". And I'm getting the idea from the feedback here that age level does matter to most of you guys when you are faced with this sitch.
Lets say you are doing a HS varsity playoff game. Tie game bottom 7th with R3. F1 comes set and does not come to a full stop but it is close. Is your thinking here going to be different? Are you willimg to balk in the winning run on a not very blatent balk?
Mike
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Either he came set or he didn't. There is no such thing as "close" or "not very blatent". If he didn't come set I would definitely balk in the winning run. I can't envision a varsity pitcher not coming to a complete stop in this situation.
But then again, I recall a college game last year in Omaha where the pitcher didn't come set with R3, and a balk was called, and it was late in the game.