Rich,
The last time by concept has been accepted by MLB among others.
"It is important to understand that in the original appeals process is the notion that the offense should have an equal opportunity to correct their base running errors. Appeals were not simply designed to provide easy outs for the defense, even though the offense may clearly have erred. Instead, the whole focus of the appeal rule was, and still is, principally to encourage the offense to run the bases legally, even after they have committed a base running error. Allowing that to be true necessitates giving the offense a reasonable opportunity to correct any base running errors they may make." (From my article "The Last Time By")
Also, a close miss is always appealable unless the runner touches it legally, the last time by, which is a rarity. G.
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Originally posted by Rich Ives
I think Roder is full of it on the "gross miss". If everyone in the park knows he missed the base and the umpire tries a "close enough" excuse to call him safe all hell would break loose.
Besides, I've seen (in MLB) players called out for missing by a lot less than a body length.
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[Edited by Gee on Aug 31st, 2004 at 06:07 PM]