What would you have done?

[Tru_in_Blu]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

I'm going to disagree. I don't believe you can ignore the infraction which took place prior to the umpire's error. The pitcher shouldn't get a pass on an attempt to cheat (and this was obviously the pitcher's intent) because the umpire screwed up the effect.

Yabbut, doesn't the batter swinging at the illegal pitch cancel? Rule 6.7 Effect D. If a batter swings at onr contacts any illegal pitch,it is nullified and all play stands.

'Cept of course for the little matter of the "no pitch" call.

The defense may have attempted to cheat, but the offense attempted to take advantage.

So there!

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu

Yabbut, doesn't the batter swinging at the illegal pitch cancel? Rule 6.7 Effect D. If a batter swings at onr contacts any illegal pitch,it is nullified and all play stands.

'Cept of course for the little matter of the "no pitch" call.

The defense may have attempted to cheat, but the offense attempted to take advantage.

So there!

The whole situation was a fuster cluck from the moment the PU said, "no pitch." I don't think there's any real good way to clean this up other than what we did.

Needless to say, I was pretty pissed at the PU. However, I think he does a lot of FP and MP, and SP may not be his stock-in-trade like it is with me (since that's all I ever do). Believe me, I've been reading rule 6 over and over again for the last 19 or 20 years. I know that's no excuse, but it does put things into perspective.

[ronald]

Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu

Yabbut, doesn't the batter swinging at the illegal pitch cancel? Rule 6.7 Effect D. If a batter swings at onr contacts any illegal pitch,it is nullified and all play stands.

'Cept of course for the little matter of the "no pitch" call.

The defense may have attempted to cheat, but the offense attempted to take advantage.

So there!

Offense did what it was allowed to do. They did nothing wrong as taking advantage implies.