Did It effect the Play?

[Rich Ives]

Peaches and Pears I think.

I think the starting point for the "step off with the wrong foot" was in conjunction with the coach yelling out "Hey, Bubba, pitch from the stretch," thus we had a condition where, in theory, everyone on the park knew he was just changing positions. It was this "we knew ahead of time" point that resulted in the no-call, and not the actual mechanical miscue.

This is very different from your obstruction scene where you cannot be sure that the runner would not have had a snowball's chance (error, throw to wrong base, whatever).