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Originally posted by mach3
R1, R3. 2 Out. The Batter hits a ball to right field, R1 rounds 2B and misses it. She stops and tries to return to the base as the defence throws the ball there. R3 reaches home savely.
What has the defence to do to appeal the missed base and nullify the run?
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In this situation, all the defense has to do is convince me they are making a live ball appeal and not a play on a runner caught off the base. Whatever they do to send the message works. It can be clearly tagging the base and not the runner, etc. OTOH, if they attempt to tag the runner, then they will have to do more to convince me they were making an appeal to get the force call.
And (even though it doesn't matter in this case) if the time of the appeal is important relative to a run scoring, the time of the appeal is either,
a) When the base is tagged if I can see both the play at second and home, or
b) When I loudly declare the out if I can't watch both and my partner is watching home.
That how I see it, anyway.