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Originally posted by greymule
Is the second play different because there was a pause in continuing action, with F2 holding the ball and all the runners stopped on their bases?
The question to me is twofold. First, can a run that has scored legally be nullified by a subsequent reinstated force. (Maybe so. I can understand that, if everything happens in the same play.) Second, if so, at what point is the run not subject to nullification? When the ball goes back to the mound? After a time out? A pitch? After a break in the vaguely defined "continuing action"?
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The FED definition of "play" includes something like "a unit of action that begins with F1 holding the ball on the mound and ends when F1 is again holding the ball" -- so that might be one way to distinguish between the two plays -- that is, it's a "force play" as long as there's play going on and it's just "leaving the base" once the play has "stopped."