Preventive Umpiring?

[mick]

Originally posted by WestMichiganBlue
....Between innings he motioned me over and said "you gotta call time on that." "Why, she didn't ask for time!" "Doesn't matter" he said. "If she gets tagged out we'll have a hellava uproar. That's just good preventive umpiring." "Sounds like slow pitch to me" I responded as I headed towards 1B.

What say you?

WMB

That works.

How about this sitch?

Runner sitting on the base. F6 standing with the ball.
Runner requests 'Time' and before you call, "Time", she gets up (off the bag) and is tagged.

Do you grant time upon your recognition of the request?

mick