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Originally Posted by EricH
Why are you fighting this?  The rules clarification was written to help umpires understand when to declare the ball dead and make subsequent calls so that we do not get into situations like the OP's. |
Not fighting, my first post on this except teasing Irish.
Just expanding/clarifying. As you said "umpire to delay his declaration so that the runners can "; which means completing running while the ball is dead and waiting for the umpire to announce.