Steal of home (Video)

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Originally Posted by Manny A

Truthfully, this is probably something that caught the umpire by total surprise, and it didn't dawn on him that he should have awarded the batter first base.

How often do you actually see someone try a straight steal of home, much less be successful? And then throw on top of that the fact that the catcher moved forward, caught the pitch, and still failed to tag the runner in time? And the whole time, the batter just stood there making zero attempt to protect the runner.

It wouldn't surprise me if the plate umpire knew of the correct interp, but he just failed to make the right call because this once-in-a-lifetime occurrence caused a brain cramp.

Caught these guys by surprise also:

Video: Triple Steal, Part II - Vanderbilt Official Athletic Site

And this link: OSU/OU - stealing home (video) - Collegiate - Umpire-Empire
is a thread about an OSU-OU game where it was not called. I don't think the video link works now but the thread has a still of the CI. Anyway, many argue not to call it and it wasn't called in these games and the OP. Whether by surprise or design I don't know.