1st to 3rd PO MOVE

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

Michael,

While that does have a certain appeal to me, personally, I can't help but wonder what you would call should the pitcher...



and successfully picks off the R1.

Me, in an OBR or NCAA game, I would balk that in a New York minute.

In a FED game, it's explicitly legal (though I have no idea why they thought this would be a good rule).

So, if the F1 is given this "innovative" advantage, I would also hold him to the FED "constraint" should he make the same move, but fail to throw - a balk.

JM

The "expected" call here is to no-call this under any code.

I actually think this is in the spirit of the rule. I don't see that F1 gets any advantage from the FED rule. An R1 who sees F1 move toward 3B and doesn't get back to 1B, IMO, richly deserves whatever he gets.