definition of a steal and situation question

[Danny R]

Thanks. The written local rule is as follows: "Stealing on passed balls is allowed, but no stealing of home." So it seems there is a contradiction of terms as OBR states that running on a passed ball is not a steal. But their meaning of 'passed ball' has been verbally clarified as 'the pitch gets past the catcher.' However, I thought that the throw back to the pitcher resulted in an error, and thus the run home wasn't stealing, which bluezebra confirms is the correct call.

Bluezebra, thanks for the OBR reference. I try to be careful about determining 'what they meant when they wrote the rule' because it's highly likely people write these rules without really thinking through all the possible scenarios. So I'm biased toward taking a legalistic interpretation of rules as opposed to trying to divine the intention, unless the intention is stated.