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Originally Posted by tcannizzo
If the rule was to halt the constant challenges of cat and mouse games, why limit it to the pitcher? I would suggest that it was not to stop cat and mouse, because you can still have plenty of cat and mouse with the 8 other D players.
Fact of the matter is, the rule is simply a fastpitch baserunning rule, that requires that the runner to be on a base prior to the pitch, and therefore must get to a base when the pitcher is ready to pitch.
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Well, the next time I talk to one of the co-authors of the rule, Tom Mason, I'll tell him he was wrong.
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Although your questions and answers are correct, there are a number of other things that CAN happen, such as the pitcher attempting to pick off the runner, and possibly throw the ball away. The pitcher can feign a play which means that P is NOT ready to pitch, thereby suspending the LBR, until the P is ready to pitch.
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Yeah, if the pitcher is coached by an idiot. Let me see, the runner is on the base, so the pitcher is going to feign a throw that would allow the runner to possibly advance. Yeah, that's the ticket. That's as ridiculous as all the cat and mouse games played between the catcher and runners. Throw the damn thing back to the pitcher! You want to know where time is wasted, there's a good chunk.
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Fastpitch is a live ball game. That is the reason.
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If it were a live ball game, the runners could advance at any time. Well, they cannot and I'm still waiting for a good reason not to call time.