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Old Mon Aug 07, 2006, 02:19pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by Ran.D
Last weekend, in a GRPA slow pitch tournament playing ASA rules, we had the following situation.

Runner on 2B, batter gets a walk. While catcher is holding the ball and jawing with his teammates, runner steals 3B.

Defensive team argues that "you can't steal on a walk, ball is dead, etc., etc." Confer with my partner and allow the SB. Checked the rule book after the game but couldn't find anything. Is there a rule?

Haven't had to deal much with stealing this year, did I mention we use pitching screens?

http://new.savannahnow.com/node/118692
When a base on balls is awarded in SP with stealing, the ball is not dead unless there was a reason other than the award itself causes it to be so.

Then again, I certainly hoped R1 moved up to 3B
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