Between games discussion - catcher calling time

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Andy

I'm with youngump....time is not called until playing action has stopped.

1) Playing action has not stopped, and F1 does not have the ball in the circle, nothing to call here...

2)Here is where I will probably generate some disagreement. Once F1 has the ball in the circle and is not making a play on R1 near third, I will call time. Both players (F1 and R1) have stopped playing to have their discussions. You would be justified by rule to call R1 out for a lookback violation, but to me, this is an example of OOO and poor game management.

And exactly what you say on number 2 is what the main discussion was about. 1 of our crowd said he'd call time as soon as it was apparent that BR wasn't going to 2nd. Most of us didn't call time at all in sitch 1, which led to the discussion on sitch 2 - if we're not calling time AT ALL - how do we justify calling time in sitch 2.

Personally, in game and on the field, I did not call time in the first sitch, and R3, after creeping, went back to third. In the 2nd, as soon as R1 turned around, I honored the catcher's request for time, albeit 15 seconds later than it was requested.

That said, I fully acknowledge that these two applications are not internally consistent... hence the post here.