Here is the situation:
Runners on second and third with two outs. Defense decides to intentionally walk the batter to load the bases. As the pitcher was preparing to the deliver a pitch, runner on third steals home. Pitcher gets rattled during the steal and umpire calls balk. (The runner was already sliding into home when the balk was called so there was never an attempt to throw the runner out).
Once balk was called defensive coach argues no balk was made. Long story short, the umpire reverses his call and says it wasn’t a balk. And even though the runner on third scored without the balk call he had to go back to third base. He said when he called the balk the play was dead so the runner couldn’t advance.
Okay, I’m admittedly bias on this one… the runner stealing home was the go ahead run in the last inning of a championship game, however I can’t understand how an umpire can basically say, I changed my mind so it’s a “do over”.
Can anyone explain the logic or if this is the way it should have been called.
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