confused or deceptive walk-steal?

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Originally posted by CecilOne
OK, how about looking at it this way?
I would have an opinion (an umpire judgement) on whether the batter was being dumb or deceitful. Assuming dumb, run scores and the batter returns to bat. Shame on defense. Assuming deceitful, run scores, batter DQ for USC. Most likely, I would assume dumb and not DQ the batter. However, if I smelled deceit by coach, batter out for interference (really stretching NFHS 7-3-5) or "abandoning" (really stretching 10-2-3-g).

Speaking ASA

If you have that type of coach, one of two things will happen if you kill play and tell the batter to return:

1. The coach will come out and argue the point at which you can remind him that the batter in not allowed to leave the box or you start calling strikes, or

2. The coach will understand you know what is going on and will drop it from that day's game plan.

Either way, you've made life easier for all concerned except that one coach