[Jim Porter]

ATTENTION!!!
I'll leave this up here for posterity, and in case anyone wants to discuss any of the elements. This Nightmare was POSTED IN ERROR, and should be ignored.

Please see Umpire's Nightmare Version 2.0.1!
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Okay, I went easy on you guys in the first one. No such luck with this one. Have fun!

- Bottom of the ninth, tie score

- Bases loaded, no outs

- Pitcher balks but delivers

- Catcher interferes with batter's swing, but he smacks a towering deep fly to right.

- R1 and R3 were off on contact, but R2 remained at his base.

- R1 is obstructed by F3 as he runs to second.

- R1 reaches second, where he and R2 both occupy the base, when R2 pushes R1 back towards first.

- The BR rounds first as R1 is retreating, and the BR passes R1.

- F9 misses the fly ball.

-R1 retouches, and grabs the BR pulling him behind him. The two run the bases in tandem, the BR right behind R1.

- R2 tags up and begins running toward third.

- R3, who had crossed home and entered his dugout, re-emerges, retouches home plate, and retreats back toward third.

- F9 gains control of the ball, and then throws wildly to F4.

- R2 rounds third as his base coach is pleading with him to stop. R2 runs smack into his base coach, and both fall to the ground on the home plate side of third.

- F4 retrieves the ball, and fires to F5. The ball goes wild past F5 and settles in live ball territory by the third base dugout.

- R3, retreating back to third, runs past R2 and the base coach, who are lying on the ground. R3 retouches third, and makes his way home.

- R1, with the BR right behind him, rounds third.

- R1 stops, picks up the poor injured R2, and carries him to the plate. The BR remains behind R1 throughout.

- F1 retrieves the errant throw from in front of the dugout, and fires to F2.

- F2 catches the ball. He tried to tag R1, but instead tags R2 who R1 is still carrying. The catcher fails to tag the BR.


Go ahead - sort through that one! How many runs score, how many outs are there, what are the calls and rulings?


[Edited by Jim Porter on Mar 1st, 2001 at 12:54 AM]