05-01-2010, 04:07 AM
I'm not sure if its an actual rule or just one of those accepted unwritten rules, but umps tend to be MUCH more strict about that type of stuff with runners on 1B. If that same thing happened at first, I guarantee you it would have been a balk. I guess since runners are not normally held on at 2nd and infielders are sneaking behind the runner, etc. they are more lenient, or maybe the rules are actually different, I'm not sure, not even Bob was sure and he was a big league manager obviously. I immediately thought it might be a balk when it happened, but I guess not.