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Originally Posted by CecilOne
• Two: If the umpire determined R1 was injured and, in the umpire’s judgement, requires immediate attention prior to B4 passing the runner, the umpire should have called Dead Ball and awarded the injured player and all other runners the base they would have reached in their judgement. Rule 4, Section 10.
Awards after all is over.
B4 passing R1 is ignored as a result of the obstruction.
If play is stopped while B4 is still running but no play at the plate for evidence, then the award has to be purely judgement of the umpire. It seems either home or 3rd could be judged for R1, 3rd or 2nd for B4.
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Your opinion?
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1. There are 2 things the umpire could have done to correctly handle this play:
a. Call immediate time out to let coaching staff attend to injured player, or
b. Call out and dead ball as soon as B4 passed the downed runner.
2. In either case i would have been counting in my head to see how many seconds it took to get the ball back to the infield. I judge 4 seconds per base. Since runner was down past 2nd, if it took ball 7 or 8 seconds to get back in to the infield, i am awarding her home. If it took 11 or 12 seconds ot get back in, I'm probably awarding both runners home.
It depends on age level & speed of the runners, where both runners where at time of dead ball call. With the injured player, it may still be hard to judge because once you call time for the injury, play is going to slow down. So it becomes judgement but you can help your judgement by watching what happens and semi-timing what is happening.
The 2 correct calls were to call immediate dead ball for the injury or out/dead ball when B4 passed R1. But it was incorrect to have B4 continue to run without a call if she passed R1.
There was a case play i think earlier this year on similar situation. It did state that the runner would be called out for passing the downed runner, but then that would be reversed when awarding placements based on the obstruction.
Am i on track here?