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Originally Posted by Rich
It's third on a baseball field, too. Two base award from the time of the *pitch*, however.
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Are you sure? Does that not only apply on the first play by an infielder after the pitch? This throw wasn't by an infielder and wouldn't the catch be the first play?
MLB 5.06.b.4
(G) Two bases when, with no spectators on the playing
field, a thrown ball goes into the stands, or
into a bench (whether or not the ball rebounds
into the field), or over or under or through a field
fence, or on a slanting part of the screen above the
backstop, or remains in the meshes of a wire
screen protecting spectators. The ball is dead.
When such wild throw is the first play by an
infielder, the umpire, in awarding such bases,
shall be governed by the position of the runners at
the time the ball was pitched; in all other cases the
umpire shall be governed by the position of the
runners at the time the wild throw was made;