This new strategy is not allowed, a breakdown

that I'm wearing that says breakdown on

it. Now, Tuve opens it up with a nice

single in the first inning. He gets a

massage. He hangs out on first base. The

count runs to 3-2 and then you've got

swing and a miss. He's off. Is it strike

him out, throw him out? No. He steals

second and he gets to third base with

less than two outs. So now he can score

on a fly ball. That's nice. It's not

nice because the umpire got in the way.

And the umpire says, "My bad. He's got

to go back to first, though." Al's like,

"What? I didn't do anything wrong." And

he's like, "Yeah, my bad." I'll show you

the replay. Umpire's very apologetic.

His face got in the way. It's umpire

interference. What are you going to do

about it? All they can say is, "That's

my bad. I'm sorry. Not my intent." And

you can see he calls it immediately. He

goes, "Oh, there it is. That's on me.

That's on me. Time out, everybody. I

messed up. That's on me. Sorry, Jose.

You've got to go back to first base."

And now that he's back at first base,

they say, "Let's pick him off." And he's

flatfooted and he's out. And now Tub's

like, "Oh, look at this smile. That's a

knowing smile." Now Tub's like, "You

sons of bitches." Look at this play.

Naylor fakes him back to the bag and

then gets the ball afterwards. I never

seen this. Now you got this. Cal Raleigh

gives a signal to the pitcher by closing

his glove. So if you watch Cal's eyes

here, he's looking at first base. He's

not looking at the pitcher. He's waiting

till Altuve is off balance and starting

to head back and then tells the pitcher

throw. Watch. Here's the wide shot. And

I'll zoom in on both at the same time.

And you can see on the left that Naylor

makes his move to lure him back like the

pickoff is coming and Altuve bites and

then as soon as he starts going back

towards his lead, Cal closes his glove

and you've got Altuve just dead to

rights left standing there. It's a cool

play. Now Naylor said he didn't know

that play was on. I'm not buying it. I

think they just want to keep it close to

their vest because it was cool and it

worked. Now, if you're at home saying,

"I think I've seen my catcher do that

move before. What's so special?" Well,

I'm not talking about the glove. If

you've never noticed that, they're doing

this all the time now. Almost every

team, their catcher is signaling when

that runner is taking his lead and when

the pitcher should turn. I bet this has

happened um throughout history. It just

seems like an obvious way to alert the

pitcher that it moves on. This I've

never seen. I never seen the first

baseman deak him back as part of a

planned play. Now the Mariners couple

games later against the Padres's. We got

Brian Woo pitching and we've got a base

ball which I include in the video

because I love it. It's just so

defeating if you're the defensive team

and if you're hitting it's nice, you

know, God's on your side. So you've got

Bogarts at first and Naylor's keeping

him on. Okay, there he is. Naylor's

keeping him on. We're going through

pitches, but I'm just showing you the

lead. And then Cal looks at the dugout

and they say, "Hey, let's run at play

again. Let's run a play again." It's not

the same play. And you can see Cal got

the signal, giving the pitcher the

signal. Looking at first, looking at

first. He knows the pitch isn't coming.

Looking at first, look. Drops the glove.

They throw it over. That's a B. Go to

second for what? Like, wait, a bach.

What?

Huh? What? Who? What? Umpire's going to

tell him he's too far. Yep. Yep. He's

too far off the base. Yeah, he can't

play off the base. So, he's saying that

this is on Naylor, not on Woo. And he

just smiles. Oh my god. Manager comes

out to figure it out. And I got a little

more chunks of what umpire is saying

here. He says, "Uh, if he steps back and

touches him, it's fine, but he's too far

in front of the base." So, let's take a

look at this because it's interesting.

It's a rule that I think if when you see

it obviously broken, you're like, "Yeah,

that makes sense that it's a rule."

There's the glove flap. So, I mean,

we'll pause for a second. I don't know

what play this is because this time it

seems like Naylor's truly not in the

play. And it seems like Cal Raleigh

gives the signal, but I don't know what

he's basing it off of at all. He's just

like, "Here you go. They told me to do

the move." Naylor takes his steps to the

right there, farther away from the bag

as if it's not a pickoff, as if it's a

pitch being pitched. That's what he does

every time the pitcher's delivery starts

is he takes that little step away from

first and he catches the ball there.

Now, you're not allowed to throw a

pickoff to a player. You have to throw

it to a base and the player has to be

occupying that base to catch it. You

can't just turn and throw to the second

baseman. Or the right fielder can't

creep down behind the guy taking a lead

and he thinks he can take a giant lead

because the first baseman is playing

further off than him.

and then the right fielder sneaks and

you throw it to the right fielder and he

touches him. You have to throw it to the

back because I think it can get just

just get messy. So that's what's being

called here. They're saying he's too far

off the base. And when he says I think

he's saying like if he catches this

and his feet are working his way back to

the bag, then it's fine when he says he

comes back. But he doesn't even do that.

He actually stepped away from the base

and caught it. I think this is very slim

margins on the rule, but the rule does

exist and that's what's being called. I

wonder if there was a memo sent out

like, "Hey, Mariners are doing some

tricky Be careful." We can see he

takes that little creep step away from

the bag. And I think that's what he's

calling. And when he tags him, he's not

within reach of the base. I think that's

probably another factor like he turns to

tag the player and he's not in reach of

the base. And that might be another way

umpires determine this. I don't know if

there's a standard. Umpires, let me

know. Interesting little rule. So, you

might be wondering, wait, was the Altuva

one illegal then? Is that not allowed?

And no, in the Altuve one, Naylor, you

can see he steps back to Deacon, but

then when the actual pitch is coming,

he's right on the base, and he doesn't

leave the base until he catches the ball

to go tag him, but he's not doing that.

And he is closer than he is in the other

one. So, I think it's fine margins, but

that's two pickoff plays. one illegal

and I don't know what the play was and

one I think is very cool and you might

see more teams do it. Thanks for

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