Catchers can give up runs due to passed balls.
This catcher invented a whole new way to give the other team a run.
Coming up next.
The video we’re going to show ends link this…
A confused coach respectfully making an argument with the umpire.
Find out what led to this and stay to the end of this video to learn what this coach
is arguing and why he is so very wrong.
A passed ball is any pitch that the catcher should have reasonably been able to catch,
but instead the ball ends up getting passed him and as a result a runner advances.
This is a type of catcher error, although it doesn’t get scored as an E2, but rather
a passed ball.
A wild pitch is any pitch the catcher can not reasonably catch and as a result a runner
advances a base.
This is a type of pitcher’s error but it doesn’t get scored as an E1, bur rather
a wild pitch.
Any ball that hits the dirt before reaching the catcher’s mitt is considered a wild
pitch no matter what.
When baseball fans think of stealing home,
it’s typically a straight steal either on the throw back to the pitcher, ...
or stealing home when the pitcher is in the wind up and
rather slow to deliver.
The catcher we are about to show you came up with an inventive way to give up a run.
Watch what transpired.
The play appears to be over.
The catcher walks to his dugout to talk with his coach about something which leaves home
plate open and gives a clear opportunity to score.
Seeing the 3rd base coach in this shot makes me wonder if this was a habit they noticed
with this team and they were waiting for the right opportunity.
Either way, the alert runner on 3rd took the run that the catcher gave them.
The coach likely thought that in Little League, once the pitcher has the ball and is on the
pitcher’s plate then runners can no longer advance.
If that’s his issue, then he failed to read the rules.
We have a few videos on that rule you can watch, but in short, Little League runners
can advance anytime they want when the ball is live until the pitcher has the ball on
the pitcher’s plate AND the catcher is in the catcher’s box ready to receive.
Absent those two conditions, runners are free to go.
One other option is that In baseball, and for the record softball rules are different,
but in baseball the play is not over … ever.
If the ball is live, then anything can still happen, and umpires in baseball should NOT
call time without a compelling reason AND never until all play is over.
So this coach may have thought time should have been called because all activity on the
bases with the last play ended.
But that is not how baseball operates.
Time is never called between every play on the field until 1) a player or coach requests
time and it is granted.
2) some compelling reason.
NEVER assume play is dead until you hear the umpire declare time and put both or one hand
in the air signaling time has been called.
Check out this other video of another runner stealing home an inattentive
catcher and pitcher.