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Originally posted by mick
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Originally posted by SamNVa
Gentlefolk,
Consider the following scenario. Flora the Flex mistakenly leads off the 4th inning and walks, B1 and B2 follow her at bat and both walk, B3 and B4 then strike out. Now Donna the DP comes to the plate and after a pitch or two is thrown to her, the derensive coach comes out and points out that Flora is on 3rd and Donna is now batting. So what do you do to fix things?
Now an illegal sub is still a substitute, so when Flora illegally batted for B1, B1 left the game and when she came up to bat, she was illegally re-entering in B2's position which makes B1 an illegal sub as well, and so on down to Donna (B5) who is illegally batting for B6. So technically speaking, we have 6 illegal subs and the team only has 13 players, so are we going home early or what?
SamC
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Yeah, Sam,
6 illegal subs or 1 to 6 BOO. That'd be fun.
mick
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Ah, but if you simply rule that Flora was BOO, then the 1st pitch to B1 made her legal, and the 1st pitch to B2 made B1 legal, so there is no BOO; so all we are left with is Donna illegally "re-entering" for Flora, i.e. 1 illegal sub insread of 6.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid this interp won't fly since 3-1-4.b.2.PENALTY explicitly states: "The penalty for illegal substitution supercedes the batting out of order penalty." So given the choice is any given situation, we must choose to enforce the illegal substiitution penalty.
Still, I eagerly wait other people's replies.
SamC