Interesting thought Mike. Is that clearly the call if her dugout was on the first base side? She was literally inches short of the plate, and then got up and went straight for the dugout, the gate of which is maybe 40 feet down the baseline. Is that, then, overrunning the plate?
If so (and I think you might rule so in a game), what's interesting to me is that we have a ruling that would differ solely based on which dugout the team is in ... which doesn't seem entirely right to me.
It's an angle I didn't consider though.
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