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Rich:
From Jim Evans Rules of Baseball Annotated, otherwise known as JEA:
Bases loaded.. .two outs. The batter smashes a hot liner past the third baseman. The ball hits the third base umpire in the foot and deflects to the shortstop. The runner from third crosses the plate...but...the batter-runner is thrown out at first. Does the run count?
RULING: The ball is alive and in play. Since the third out is a force out...no run scores.
I agree, TECHNICALLY, hes wrong, its not a force out. He is right in that the run does not count as the 3rd out came before the BR touched 1B.
Just posted to show that even the big dogs get a little sloppy in calling this a force out at 1B.
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