Walking steal.

[Roger Greene]

Originally posted by Dakota
WestMichBlue has brought this up before (on eteamz, at least, of not here)

What you have is an inattentive umpire. Any umpire that would take his position behind the catcher and call for the pitch with an active baserunner legally "running" (although slowly) the bases needs to find another avocation.

The umpire didn't call for the pitch, but he didn't kill the ball because the runner was still advancing. (That is the problem with my suggestion of calling no pitch--the ball is dead and now what do you do with the runner?)

Roger Greene