How to steal a base in Little League - the delayed steal

Stole home on the throw to the pitcher when he turned around

I'm not in little league but I'm 11u. We can lead off and one time I tried to steal third from second base I was clearly safe and my coach tried to defend me when they called me out. I stole when the pitcher wasn't looking but the catcher threw it and you know what happened

I stole home to win our by one point, 12 to 13, when the pitcher over threw third which I was on. He threw it past third to the fence which was about 2 to 2 1/2 yards away.

I take lead offs but my secondary lead is huge

I stole home when the pitcher was about to catch the ball and that made us win 13-4, we are 12-0.

I stole home waiting the pitchers back was toured me and I was safe

4 years ago they didn't let it stand and we lost the championship game because of it

More bush league nonsense.

Not a steal per se, but I did stretch a double into a home run when I was in little league. I got into second standing up. I don't remember where the third baseman was, but he wasn't at third base. When the second baseman threw to the pitcher, I took off for third with nobody there. Once on third, the pitcher who had been running to third with the ball started walking back to the mound. I took off for home. The pitcher made a quick throw to home,but the catcher dropped it.

I play select

I am using it for my games for now on

I do a delayed steal all the time and I've never gotten out

I did and was safe

does it have to be LL can it be Pony league?

In my tournament my coach said to go to second well I got purposely walked my 4th time the picture was not on the mound and the catcher wasn't ready so I went to second

I played that clorado team in my all star season. Well.. there b team at least. But we beat them!

When I was 10 I was on 3rd base and starting jogging home on ball 4 little did I do it was not bases loaded so I ran for my life and ended up being safe

Thanks man! I tryed this and it worked btw I’m in a dif Lil league

What if you pitch the ball before your catcher is ready just so the steel won't count?

I was just fast as all hell! And putting pressure on means a lot of missed throw downs resulting in being on third or even home

I was on third base in a playoff game and it was tied. The catcher goes to talk to the pitcher but never calls time. I take a lead and decide to try to steal home. I got to home but a bad slide cost me the run and i didn't score

in usssa you can lead and steal all you want. pitchers do just fine and runners get thrown out occasionally. I love pick a runner off.

i play usabl so i can lead and steal anytime suckers!

Coaches should be working on real skill sets rather then stuff that doesn’t even work at high level baseball.

At my game the pitcher threw back to the catcher and i realised that he didn't once look at me so the next time he did it i took off for home and he didn't realise i went till it was too late

Thank YOU

For some reason there is so many right handed pitchers in 14U so when I get walked, they are always facing the other way. So I just steal second immediately




It works every time!

Im not trying to gloat but last year my arm was on point for steals I felt so great when I got a out on the steal 👍

When I start running to second base the catcher launched the ball to first base. I was confused. The ball went passed the first basemen and they missed the throw to third. Then I scored. But the next time up to bat I I got hit in the head by a pitch.





Likes = how many brain cells I lost

Yesterday I had to go back to third when the pitcher threw a walk and he wasn't paying attention to me so I stole home but had to go back

Im 12 and i can lead off

Too much wiggle room. It depends 100% on the ump and his/her definition of 'ready.' Worse... there is no penalty for blatantly leaving too soon, and worst ...it is too easy to steal a call from an ump who is not paying enough attention. The only rule that works? Return to base, and no stealing, from the time the catcher controls a pitch to the time the next pitch crosses the plate (i.e., treat a cleanly-caught pitch like a foul ball). Anything else is far too open to interpretation.

i was safe

Bruh in my league you can lead and steal whenever you want, nobody has to be ready at all you can jus steal

Bad call go back to first

your amazing i have stole so many bases because of you. SEASONS ALMOST HERE

It is not a stolen base if there is a pass ball. Simply because it is an error on the defense, not a steal by the runner

In our league lead off are permitted, I never could figure out why others did not, now I know

To be honest, most of this kind of stealing is what killed my interest in little league when I was younger, and now as a coach it still seems cheap. I guess if you have to do this to win, this is what you do. But you don't see any of this in high school or above; it does nothing to prepare kids for baseball when they're just trying to learn the basics of pitching and catching, and now you add this? You might as well just have kids continue running once they get to first and never stop until they're out or score. It's not baseball.

I do not think anyone talked to us about any little league rules. Might have helped to know the rules to be a better player. Course that was 1968.... For me. We caught the ball threw it and tried to hit it.

Imma teach my kid not to clap like that looks annoying lol

i used to steal all the time if the pitcher had no clue, went from 1st to second without anyone knowing

Before my 2nd year I discovered I could wait for the pitch to cross home plate and beat our catchers throws every time. From that point on I stole whenever there was an open base. I never got thrown out ....

.....except in an all-star game when I was on 2nd and couldn’t resist testing the catcher who had the best arm in our area by a mile.

I knew I was pressing my luck but was confident. He threw me out so bad I almost turned around to run back to 2nd. haha. I felt that would be too embarrassing so tried one of those crazy sweeping slides. Didn't work. I just sent him a FB friend request to let him know he was the only one.

Umps who saw me do it the first time almost always said "You left early! That's a warning!" I'd always smile and say "I didn't leave early." and he'd respond "no, you did." I'd steal on the next pitch and then he'd see I really didn't leave early.

I umped LL 2 yrs and played 3 and never saw anyone attempt it.

All that delayed steal stuff annoyed me because it didn't seem real; I never attempted one because of my 11 and 12 year old principles. ha "A man got to have a code."

I wonder if anyone else has a similar story or has known someone who stole bases like that. I always wondered if another one was out there. Plenty have the speed to do it but maybe it's so unconventional people don't ever consider it.

*Rickey Henderson was the 1st athlete I idolized. In 4th grade I read a lot about Jackie Robinson and loved his style of base running and knew that's what I wanted to be like..I thought Trea Turner had the talent to be the next Rickey and bring back those insane sb numbers that were so great; I was pumped but not the right era. .

Small difference but can steal when the ball gets to the batter not the plate

Can't hear

"... making the diving catch on the foul ball." The catcher I see when this comment was made is standing. This is the point where I stop watching this rather poor video, but I won't forget to give a thumbs down before I leave.

Nice video, i would also add the steal on a walk, batter runner continues onto second. This is sometimes confused for an illegal steal if pitcher is on rubber and catcher ready. I"m getting conflicting information, from LL website and the actual rule book supposedly it's in section 7.13 but I don't see it.