Still loving Fall Ball

[Andy]

I'm going to ask about #2 in the OP:

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Sitch 2: bottom of same inning. Bases loaded, pitch is a ball making the count 3-2. R3 starts trotting to 2nd, gets halfway, stops, turns around and asks the umpire if that was 4 balls. OUT.

The way I see this, R3 stopped, asked, and.....? If the umpire answered "no" and she then went back to first, I have nothing. If she stood there for some time (judgement) wondering what was going on, then I would call the out.

I understand that "immediately proceed" after the stop is strictly umpire judgement, and I wasn't there to see the play, just looking for some further description.

I'm pretty sure that Mike has a good grasp of the lookback rule, he didn't say whether it was him or his partner that made this call.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Andy

I'm going to ask about #2 in the OP:

The way I see this, R3 stopped, asked, and.....? If the umpire answered "no" and she then went back to first, I have nothing. If she stood there for some time (judgement) wondering what was going on, then I would call the out.

I understand that "immediately proceed" after the stop is strictly umpire judgement, and I wasn't there to see the play, just looking for some further description.

I'm pretty sure that Mike has a good grasp of the lookback rule, he didn't say whether it was him or his partner that made this call.

I was PU. First off (and I'm surprised it didn't get mentioned here... was kind of waiting for it), I wouldn't be caught dead in B with the bases loaded! BU did, in fact, say "No." Runner still stood there and didn't go either way - at which point she was called out.