[Rich Ives]

CZ, how many people have to say it before you believe it? The runner has acquired the base IF NO APPEAL IS MADE. ANY APPEAL MUST BE MADE BEFORE THE NEXT PITCH OR PLAY - See 7.10.


Daque on the other board: Since the ball was put into play without an appeal, the appeal is lost. He is considered to have acquired 2B.

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If a runner misses a base and no appeal is made before the next pitch or intervening play such as a pickoff attempt, is the appeal lost? Yes. At that moment the runner is adjudged to have acquired the base. So advancement to the next base does not impact the play and does not allow for appeal. In other words, when the appeal is lost, the runner has in fact acquired the base.

coach c on the other board: by passing second and being past it when the next pitch is made, he has acquired it.


Gee on this board: The runner aquires a base once he passes it.

ozzy6900 on this board: If there is no appeal made under either rule, then as soon as the next pitch is made, the runner is to be concidered to have touched 2nd and not further appeal can be made for missing that base.

me, on the other board, and now again here: A missed base must be appealed, before the next pitch or play. Absent an appeal, he is now legally where he is.

LL Rules Instruction Manual (basis JEA): A runner who misses a base is considered as having touched a base if the opposing team makes no appeal.


J/R . . runner acquires the right to an unoccupied base when he touches or passes it . .

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If he has passed the base, he has failed to touch it, but is considered to have touched it until there is an appeal for his failure to touch.

As for the appeal, J/R says: An appeal of a runner's failure to touch or retouch can be upheld if such appeal occurs before the next pitch ot continuous action play.