runner foot position in LL

[parrothead]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

Ump was wrong.

He may be confusing this with the can't start from behind the bag on a tag-up rule.

That said you risk having an umpire see the motion and think he's left the bag when he really hasn't.

Yep that is a great point and we actually had that issue (same in softball too, its actually where I got it from in coaching my daughters team, when my son started playing LL, I thought it made sense in that setting)

One follow up to when you leave, one of the misunderstood rules too and I have actually had to talk to umps on this is that a lot of coaches and even some umps think its when ball crosses plate, but its actually its crosses batter, which I often though what if batter moved out of the box up front to allow the runner a few extra steps, is that a violation? (obviously if he hit the ball out of the box he is out)