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Originally posted by jumpmaster
Well,
I guess I kicked this one harder than I thought.
So the proper ruling would be...
time - R2 out. R3 return to 3rd. BR back in the box. Would the pitch count as a strike?
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I think you have R2 out, R3 return to 3rd, BR at 1B, new batter to get the game going again, unless you deem the contact to be willful and deliberate to break up a double play (hard to picture in this situation), in which case B1 is also out and inning over. What double play would the runner be willfully breaking up? He can not run into the fielder and make the fielder make a play on him or the BR, either of which would be one out. The only DP possibility I see is tag the runner and throw to 1B, and R2 can prevent this. I don't see two outs, based on description.