Reply to "Defensive timeout"

cabbagedadHSBaseballWeb member since 2011

Tulo, welcome to the site...

Uhhhh, first of all, you are commenting (and with some emotion, I might add) on a post that is nearly ten years old. USE YOUR HEAD!

Second, regarding your example, you may want to refer to the reply by PIAA_UMP.. he is an experienced and accomplished umpire - "Time should not be granted until play is relaxed." If the runners are as you describe "faking making an attempt to advance to try to get the SS to throw the ball to the base", that would not qualify as play being relaxed.

Additionally, with the situation being runners at 1st and 3rd, it is quite common, particularly at that age level, for the coach to instruct the runners to do just that - have R1 try to advance, forcing the throw from SS, enabling R3 the chance to advance to home. You cannot assume that no one was trying to advance, particularly when they are showing aggression toward doing so.

6/8/175:18 PM

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