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Originally Posted by ilyazhito

Perhaps this is also the reason why baseball plate umpires do not rotate to 3rd with runners in scoring position, except on the R1/R2 situation, fly ball to the outfield <2 outs, and R2 tagging up to go to 3rd (R1/R3 is a rotation situation in 2-man (and some 3-man systems) and R3 is also a rotation situation in softball (and some baseball) 3-man on batted balls to the outfield, but those situations are exceptions, because the runner on 3rd base is expected to score without a play made on him/her).

In softball 3-man, none of the OP situations involve rotations, because umpires would be in the counter-rotated position (U3 is in D, U1 is in B).

Hate the term "counter-rotated" It is a non-entity. Then again, baseball should not be part of the discussion