just pondering

[Gee]

On an uncaught checked swing with two strikes on the batter the PU should immediately go to the BU for the call. Unless, of course, he has already called it a strike. G.

[bob jenkins]

Originally posted by Boone
Three and two count on the batter. check swing, pitch in the dirt.

PU: Ball Four. No he didn't go.

Batter: removes shin guard protector and begins to trot to first

Catcher: simultaneously tags the runner then asks you to go for help.

BU: "Yeah he went" and rings him up.

According to the same logic you are applying above, we should protect that batter because if we hadn't said ball four he would have busted *** up to first and might have been safe.

Well, we don't protect because he "might have been safe."

We decide what would have likely happened and enforce that. If the pitch was back to the screen, safe. If the pitch was blocked by the cather and picked up right away, out. In between -- it's why we get the big bucks.

And, as Gee points out, proper mechanics would have prevented the problem in the first place.