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Originally posted by Dave Reed
I don't know (perhaps through ignorance and lack of resource) of any comment by a baseball higher authority regarding the reinstatement of a force play. Do you?
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Not sure what you're asking: if you mean -regarding specifically reinstatement of a "force" at 1stB?- Obviously, no, since PAF is not a force. Otherwise, all I know of on the subject of reinstating forces is what is already in the Rule Book, and some commentary related thereto, none of which is more helpful than what has already been posted.
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By the way, I forgot to point out in an earlier post that Section 10 Official Scorekeeper uses the definitions of Double Play and the Force/Reverse Force variants, primarily to keep track of RBIs. The definitions are needed and deny RBIs when BR causes a Force or Reverse Force DP.
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AH! that explains it: I try real hard not to concern myself with the rules for scorers; maybe I should rethink that attitude. Knowing that there is actually some reason for the "reverse force DP" nonsense may require me to revise my assessment of that passage as among the worst in the book: least helpful to umpires maybe?
As a "final word": I just received my 2004 J/R manual, & I'm like a kid w/ a new toy.
In Ch. 6, Sec. A, note 12 [pg 49] I find:
"...the force out does not apply to the batter-runner ... (by definition he cannot be forced)."
At last, an authoritative statement of the PAF not=F principle. I would take it as given that, if it's not a force to begin with, one cannot "reinstate the force", regardless of what retrograde movements one makes on the base path after touching 1st Base, or why one makes them.
Cheers!
--Carter