Squeeze Play

Lefty- I re-read my post and it did not come across the way I intended. I saw 3 steals of home in HS last year. Each steal were in seperate games. Two steals were by the same player.

It really is not that difficult to steal home in HS. You must be a great baserunner, but not necessarily the fastest. Pitchers in HS make much more mistakes then at any other level (obviously not all pitchers) and look at some of the players who are pitching. Some of them should never be qualified as a pitcher, but as a thrower.

You would think that stealing of home would be more difficult at each advanced level. And by the time one reaches the ML level, it would be impossible for a player to steal home. But...you will find that's not the case. In one year, Rod Carew not only stoled home...he did it 7 times!!!!

 

My son stole

home twice in the past HS season, once successfully and once he was thrown out at the plate. The first time he was safe due to the fact that the catcher had no idea what was going on. He had ball in glove and had a deer in the headlights look on his face...never even attempted to tag him out. Second time was against a more experienced catcher who had no problem making the tag.

 

need a ruling

bases loaded with a 2-2 count on batter and 2 outs. pitcher is in the windup and runner on third breaks for home. while the pitcher is in his delivery motion to the plate, the right hand batter steps in front of the catcher and crosses home plate into the left handers batter box. the pitcher stops his motion and does not deliver a pitch. what is the correct ruling? is it a balk? didn't think the batter could iniciate a balk. is it a stike on the batter for vacating the box? is it batter interference for crossing across home plate in front of the catcher? where do we put the runners? if it is a strike it would be srike three on the batter, inning over.

 

Interesting situation

WOW a great situation to handle for an umpire!!! I would call batter interference and call the batter out and that would end the inning and I would get run out of town by the fans.

 

too funny - devil! (unless, of course, I'm the one with the mind in the gutter...in that case... nevermind.)

 

sretchlon

stretchlon you are correct on you calling. a stike is called on the batter for vacating the box. a strike is called on the batter. in this case strike three, inning over. if it had not been strike three, then the runner must retrieve back to third base, dead ball.