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Originally posted by greymule
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.
I suspect there's a misunderstanding here. Roder is talking only about a runner who misses a base but touches it "last time by." A gross miss cannot be corrected "last time by," but a "regular" miss can be.
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Not so. He says the same thing in his basic book page 54 Chapter 9-B-A-1 He says a baserunner is vunerable to appeal if he doesn't get within a body length the final time by. This is complete hooey as the "final" time can be the only time.
You can't say he's safe because he was "close enough".
Roder also used to at least, subscribe to the string theory.
He is also the only expert that holds that a foul tipped bounced pitch cannot be caught for an out for purposes of the uncaught third strike rule.