steal home - run score?
 

situation:
R1 at 3rd with two outs...2 and 2 count on the batter...pitcher going from the windup...runner breaks with the pitch and steals home (beating the pitch to the plate)...pitch called a strike...does the run score?

Can you give a rule and or casebook number for my argument..

No. (NFHS citations below)

9-1-1(a), Exception -- A run is not scored if the runner advances to home plate during action in which the third out is made as follows:

a) by the batter-runner before he touches first base.

8-1-1(b) -- A batter becomes a runner with the right to attempt to score by advancing to first, second, third and home bases in the listed order when:

b) he is charged with a third strike;
1. If the third strike is caught, he is out an instant after he becomes a runner.

OBR: Same answer. 4.09(a)

One run shall be scored each time a runner legally advances to and touches first,
second, third and home base before three men are put out to end the inning.
EXCEPTION: A run is not scored if the runner advances to home base during a
play in which the third out is made (1) by the batter-runner before he touches first
base; (2) by any runner being forced out; or (3) by a preceding runner who is
declared out because he failed to touch one of the bases.

NCAA: Same answer, but I don't have the rules handy.

Easy rule to remember, regardless of rule-set. No runs score when the batter-runner is out before reaching 1b when 2 are out already.

6.05(n) helps to understand the ruling although it is for one specific situation:

"(n) With two out, a runner on third base, and two strikes on the batter, the runner
attempts to steal home base on a legal pitch and the ball touches the runner in the batter’s strike zone. The umpire shall call “Strike Three,” the batter is out and the run shall not count; before two are out, the umpire shall call “Strike Three,” the ball is dead, and the run counts."

Other posters have given you the correct answer, but perhaps you're not sure when "action" (FED) or the "play" (OBR) begins. I can't give you an exact rule cite, but the action or play begins at the time of the pitch rather than when the ball reaches the plate. It is similar to a stealing runner who reaches his advance base before the ball is hit foul. The runner returns to the base occupied at the time of the pitch.