Quick Pitch

[Sven K]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

What runner or umpire would come even close to letting this happen?

A runner who is either not savvy or who expects that the Umpire to "help him out". But it seems to me that there is no rule for the Umpire to act on here if the pitcher is not balking and is otherwise making a legal pitch.

Most of the rules seem (to me at least) to be well-founded in a principle of fairness and I thought that maybe I was missing something in the rules or commentary with regard to the runners.