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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Some sort of play...to combat a situation where the runners have to hold their bases until the ball leaves the pitcher's hand?
In that case, couldn't you just rule on general principles? There's no advantage to pitching out, there's no safety issue, it's not wasting time, the catcher gains no edge by repositioning on a ball that's not going to be in play...so why would the action be penalized?
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Runners were on first and third, so I'm guessing the reason the catcher did what she did was to make a possible play on R2 advancing to second base? I see nothing wrong with that. (Edited to add) Now that I re-read the OP, the batter was squaring to bunt, so perhaps the defense thought there was a squeeze play coming. Again, I don't see a problem with what the catcher did here.
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