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Originally posted by mcrowder
And what about the heated argument from the offense that their runner would have beaten out the play at first - they don't get that either, and are penalized with a strike!
The ruling here is that the umpire yelling FOUL makes it FOUL. Right or wrong.
Now, at the risk of someone calling this a TWP ( ), what if the ball was a basehit to centerfield. Rookie BU on a bad day, for some reason had glanced away (perhaps watching a runner steal), saw something in his peripheral vision (perhaps even hearing something hit the fence), and yells FOUL!
Rulebook says it's Foul. And a strike. Do we, in this case, use 9-1-c to simply "do-over" or even place runners?
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Well, if you are running a FED game and the ball was hit fair but the umpire called it foul, I guess you only have one choice here. The rules and interpertations are clear - the ball is dead and B1 has a strike placed on his count. There is nothing more that you can do about it -
if you want to officiate by the book. Will they scream, pi$$ and moan? You betcha but that's the way it is!