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Joels right on top of this one. The defense is appealing a violation during a certain part of the play. If there were multiple runners and the defense simply said a runner missed the base, the umpire cannot rule because one of the runners may have touched the base. I don't know how anyone can expect an umpire to be specific if the defense making the appeal is not.
Also, while ASA does give the umpire discretion to ignore appeals if he judges them to be merely guessing, a team does NOT lose it's right to appeal if they are incorrect on their first request.
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