Joe West's Illegal Pitch call in the Cards/Pirates game

[TBBlue]

Dave, thanks for taking the time to find and quote the Evans opinion. I believe the older rule of calling the ball would be a better, swifter deterent and makes more sense to me, but the game and interpretation of rules evolves. For calling games using strict OBR, ie. Legion, adult leagues, etc. I will make sure to follow Evans and make it a "don't do that". Unless someone else comes up with a different authoritative interpretation...then we are back where we were. It would really be nice to know what the game evaluation of the West call was. Not to publically slam West, but just for umpires trying to make the right call in the future to get MLB's official view. I realize it probably will not happen.



[Edited by TBBlue on Aug 24th, 2004 at 12:57 AM]