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Bob,if illegal subtitute P1 is batting out of order and hits a single and discovery is made before the next pitch, are you saying that the batter that follows the person that P1 substituted for would always be the next batter? If this is the case,then the offense is gaining an unfair advantage.
For example,they could put the illegal substitue in for the ninth batter so that the first batter in the line up card
will be the next one to be up. I would think it would make more sense to enforce the BOO rule for illegal substitutes batting out of order after making a hit so that the proper batter is out and the next batter to be the person who would have followed the proper batter. Could the only difference between the BOO Rule and the illegal substitution rule, after the illegal substitute hits the ball and discovery being made before the next legal pitch, be that the illegal substitute would be ejected? In other words, could
supersede mean that we eject the illegal batter also- not just enforce the BOO?
Assume that two discoveries are made before the next legal pitch.The first one being that he batted out of order and the second one being that he is an illegal substitute. The question is the following:
Assume that the
llegal substitute P1 batted for the fifth person in the line up before he became illegal- but now is
batting for the ninth batter. When he hits his single,
who is the next batter, assuming that the the fifth person in the line up was the proper batter? Would it be:
A) The first batter in the lineup since the illegal substitute was batting for the ninth batter illegally.
B)The 6th batter since the proper batter was the 5th batter.
If B is the answer then we be the following: When an illegal substitute bats out of order, what is the difference between the penalty for illegal substitution and for BOO, assuming that the illegal substitute hits a single and discovery is made before the the next pitch?
I think the answer would be that we are enforcing the B00 rule for illegal substitutes batting out of order except that the illegal substitute would also be ejected.
I guess the real question is whether the penalty for BOO for a legal substitute and an illegal substitute are exactly the same except that in the former, the illegal substitute is ejected. Am I right?
Thanks
Greg
[Edited by Gre144 on Apr 8th, 2001 at 06:49 PM]
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