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Old Fri Aug 04, 2017, 11:15am
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Originally Posted by youngump View Post
Why would the ball be dead? The ball is killed by hitting a runner when
a) the runner isn't in contact with a base
and
b) it hasn't passed a fielder OR it has passed a fielder but another fielder has a play on it

(this also answers your other question.)

Since you killed it that's an inadvertent call of time, sort it out accordingly.
For USA, RS 44.A 4th sentence.
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