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Originally Posted by BigUmp56
Try getting this one passed a protest committee. The rule is abundantly clear that the runner must be on the bag at the time the pitcher is ready to deliver the ball. There's no wiggle room here. If he's returning when the ball is delivered he's in violation. I was of the same opinion that you are until Andy Konyar responded to an e-mail I sent him last Summer. He set me straight in a hurry.
Tim.
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Using the book, or Andys words, you can drop the flag if a runner raises his foot off the bag at any time between when the catcher faces the pitcher, to when the pitch reaches the batter.
I choose not enforce that interpretation, but there's enough fuzziness in the wording for us all to be right. Thus the real problem.
As you can probably tell, I don't lock-step to everything that Andy sez.
Kyle