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Originally Posted by youngump
And I'm having trouble believing that it's going to matter to your call which you choose. Even a stealing runner isn't going to get to second by the time a hard hit ball at F5 can be misplayed.
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Yes, an award from either "time of pitch" or "time of throw/kick/deflection" might very well result in the same base.
Note that on this play it wasn't a "hard hit ball", it was a "slow roller". That at least opens up the possibility that a runner had advanced a base before the ball was touched. And that means an umpire may have to make a distinction between the two.