Administer This Play

[LMan]

Originally Posted by newump

how about no safe or out call from BU. call time - to make sure the runner doesn't wander off of the base (if he thinks he was out and doesn't know it was ball four) then confirm the call from the PU or give him help if he needs it on a check and then make the appropriate call if necessary on the runner.

You are complicating this unnecessarily. Just make the safe/out call at 2B....then adjust based on what the PU called. If you call him out and its a walk, no big deal. Just leave him at 2B.

This does not 'look bad', it just is.

You (should) have enough to do getting into position and making the s/o call at the bag without worrying about what PU called (if you arent sure at first). Its the PU's job, when he sees the steal begin, to amplify his call on that pitch to let you know what the outcome is. His failure to do so is his fault, not yours.