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Old Sun Apr 11, 2004, 10:31pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by whiskers_ump
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The play continued on because not everyone heard the call from an unusual spot and the shortstop picked up the ball uncaught and tossed it to her second baseman who touched the runner on second base then touched second base for the third out. Everyone from the defence was all happy and everyone from the offence was going crazy about the call not being made. Little did they know that the third base coach the thirdbaseman and I all knew what was happening. These were womans A players and they all knew the game very well. The shortstop made the play look like she could not handle the catch with ordenary effort and in turn made others believe this. Although she turned the double play with the easiest of effort. After the dust cleared and both coaches were on the field we got it all cleared up, that it was not only the plate umpires call and the intent of the rule was to keep from happening what did happen. Both coaches were satisfied and we played on with runners on first and second and two outs. The next batter hit a single and scored the winning run from second. Oh I forgot to mention that this was the bottom of the 13th and we were tied 1 to 1.
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Ed, Why were there runners on 2nd and 3rd and only two outs?
By we got it all cleared up, Are you saying you changed the IFR
call and sent runners back to bases, declaring only the batter
out? The underlined portion of your posts shows IFR called, out
2, third out on runner at 2B. How and why are you continuing?
If the IF is enforced, there is no force out. Ed said F4 touched the runner ON 2B. No out there. Then touched 2B. Still no out there.

Seems to me like it should have been 1st & 2nd w/2 outs.

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