Your view on this play

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

It always amuses me when the defense wants to appeal when the ball is still alive, and they tell the pitcher to get on the rubber, then step off, and then appeal, instead of just throwing the ball to the base. And then when the ball is dead, they can't get the concept of putting it back in play before they can appeal. It must be baseball dyslexia.

It's one of those myths that have been perpetuated for so long it becomes "reality". I heard it 40 years ago, and I still hear it today.