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Ball thrown to 1st base after BB/Walk ????
Hi all Noob here,
Batter is walked and I have the catcher throw the ball to 1st base after every walk is there a ruling which stipulates this as an illegal proceeding? The batter reached 1st and then left the bag while knowing 1st has the ball in his glove.---- It is not a trick play just good warmup throw for my catcher for the steal throw---- which sometimes in games the runner forgets and gets tagged. Blue ruled no call and illegal throw. Blue told me that it was an illegal throw that the ball is to go back to he pitcher before any other base in a walk. I did this in h.s. ball and it was legal then. This is a juniors ll team. I cannot find a ruling in the rule book on this. |
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What is juniors II...Little League?
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Little League isn't that weird
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I don't know if LL really has more phantom rules enforcement than other youth organizations, but I sure wish it had less. At the very least, I'm beginning to think that LL doesn't help by having no real online repository of rules and interpretations. Of course, no interp is needed to understand that there's no throw first to pitcher rule. (In proofing this post, I think it may not fail to set some kind of record for compound negatives.)
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When I was in Little League (okay, I'll admit it...it was 29 years ago), I was on an All-star team that did this same thing. It was legal then...it's legal now. Sounds like someone played "invent-a-rule" because he didn't like this play.
Now, I've invented a 15 runs after 3 mercy rule, but that's another story. |
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My son started doing this when he was 10 or 11. Sometimes it worked. You can't do it every time or it will never work. If you find a particular batter who tends to step off the bag, he is the one to try it on.
Nothing illegal about it. |
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Whenever catchers at this level whom arms are underdeveloped throw they have a hard time judging how hard to throw. This really helps a lot because they can easily hit 1st or 3rd but find it harder to hit second. We have a huge league and finding a catcher with a cannon thats not on the trny team is very difficult. Two definitions of the why and it does get some bb/runners who make the turn. Snail.... |
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It's a play used to catch an opponent napping,which is fine. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. ![]()
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7 year LL title holders ![]() If your a catcher throwing the ball back to the pitcher---that in itself creates a muscle memory---- that at this age--- judging distance becomes a task. It helps ..... Serious... But I do like the red lipstick---matches our team jersey. ![]() ![]() |
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Could you be more specific about the Walk.
Was it a Walk on 4 pitched Balls, or an Issued Walk ? In some leagues, NFHS included, when you issue a Walk (elect to not pitch to the batter), the ball becomes dead. Hence, throwing to 1st is a no call, and can be considered a delay of game, if the ball isn't back to the pitcher when the next batter is ready. With respect to the NFHS Mercy Rule: 4-2-2:...By state association adoption, the game shall end when the visiting team is behind 10 or more runs after 4 1/2 innings, or after the fifth inning, if either team is 10 runs behind and both teams have had an equal number of times at bat.
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Have Great Games ! Nick Last edited by nickrego; Mon Jun 12, 2006 at 01:09am. |
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