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My 13u travel team and also my middle school team both will use this type of move once a game. Since very few teams have ever seen us before, we can usually get a runner once with it. Very simply, the first time a runner gets on first, the pitcher will stand on the rubber in the windup. Then, he steps back with his left foot. Most runners will then take off assuming he is going to pitch. Our pitcher will then step completely off the mound and get the runner in a rundown.
Very effective at the middle school level when you still have inexperienced runners (and coaches). Teaches them a lesson! |
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Just curious
Am I the only one who has a balk on that last post, If they step back with left foot off the rubber, they are pitching now. They can disengage generally with Right foot first (righty pitcher), dropping the hands, they can step directly toward the base, and if it is first must throw, and they can pitch. What you discribed to me sounds like a balk.
Remember must step directly at the base, back would be toward 2nd, someone better be there, and if you stepped back, I don't think I 'd by that as directly toward the bag even if someone was there. I need to know you are not pitching, so a step toward second would turn your body toward that bag. Otherwise, I got a balk. If you step directly toward first and pause, i got a balk. If you stepbackwards and pause (with left first) I got a balk. If you step back with left to disengage, i got a balk (unless your a lefty) This is not a simple move and there are way more ways to balk than do it right, this is why most people step off properly. |
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(assuming a RHP) Do these games have umpires?
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Obviously we need more information, but if your "pretend" motion simulates your pitching motion, and you threw to a base...we'd have a balk.
Read OBR 8.01 and 8.05
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My guess is the umpire would probably call a balk. But, I plan on talking to a few umps in our tournament this weekend prior to the game. If we discuss it beforehand, hopefully we get the call if executed correctly. |
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Couple of thoughts:
1) The question "does this apply to FED" also reveals why a lot of youth ball coaches and players [and some umps] are shocked when they do see a properly-executed pick from the wind-up. Folk get used to the FED rule that F1 can't pick from the WU, and forget the BRD when they leave FEDlandia at the end of the school year. 2) And for those "you don't see this/ it won't work @ higher levels": uhh, I don't know about that. Did a Legion District Tourney last year and one pitcher picked two guys absolutely clean out of their sneakers in sucessive innings. Had to explain to the coach that in non-FED ball, a pick from the windup is perfectly legal: he'd never seen it done. Have to admit it was the first time I'd ever seen it attempted: fortunately my "HUH, what was that??!??" reaction forced/ permitted me to replay what I saw and to recall that this was not a HS game; and kept me silent long enough to make the correct non-call. |
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Here's a pickoff from the windup that my son executed from the windup position last season. This is a 13U team.
The situation was R2 and R3. We had a comfortable lead late in the game and he was pitching from the windup position as we were mostly showing defensive indifference at this point. But R2 was taking a ridiculously large lead. He was taking one of those "in your face" leadoffs. So, we decided to make an example of this young man ... on principle. If you watch the video closely, you can see our catcher signal the pickoff maneuver. The BU called the R2 out, but the PU called it balk claiming, "He didn't step off, coach." This was a game played under OBR rules (USSSA). The PU called mostly high school games and was one of those umpires who only bothers learning ONE set of rule ... FED. I informed him that the pitcher didn't need to step off. He finally agreed but I didn't feel the need to push the issue and embarrass him since it was pointless. He was wrong and apologetic. Here's the maneuver: http://www.eteamz.com/HoustonHS/vide...up_pickoff.mov David Emerling Memphis, TN |
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