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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Yeah, pretty stupid and I've told them so. Just increases the chances of starting the next inning with an out
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The issue is if they want to start an inning with an out or end an inning with an out. Depending on the situation, the desire might be different. For example, if a runner is on third and tries coming home on a fly out (or pop out/ground out, ect for the second out) he/she puts the pressure on the defense to get the third out. If they get the run home, they've picked up a run and then get the out. And the third out becomes the automatic out. If they don't try to get the run home, they end the inning with a runner on the bases that has no chance of scoring.
The one downside would be if the runner does get thrown out, you still start with an out to start the next inning.
What's really fun is when the runner becomes the winning run in the last inning, knowing if he doesn't score, the game goes another inning.
I watch a girl (batter) in our WrecK league score a running knowing the automatic out was after her. She hit a bloop single to center that dropped for a single. CF tries throwing her out at first and over throws it. F3 then overthrows second and the ball goes to the outfield. She rounds third and the throw to the pitcher covering the plate is about 10 feet over his head, so she scored. I think it would be ruled a single with an error on the CF, an error on the first baseman, and another error on the CF who over threw the plate.
Nobody said this was good ball I was umpiring. It's better than a winning run scoring on a dropped third strike when the batter runner scores the winning run. That happened in Montana IIRC.