What a Ploy.......

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[QUOTE=Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by PeteBooth

Follow up question.......from the uninitiated.....

R3 steals home......would make it easily but pitcher plunks batter.....call?

If you felt that the pitcher deliberately hit the batter, would that make any difference to the call?

Sure. Dead ball, runner returns and pitcher is tossed. warnings are for uncertainty, if I am sure he hit the batter deliberately he is gone. If not sure, but suspicious, put a warning on the pitcher and return the runner.

I would expect the pitcher to throw a pitch a RH batter would bail on if a runner is attempting to steal home. The difference between a purpose pitch and a hit batter could be inches.