The relevant point of the play in question is as follows "Pitcher was standing in front of the mound. F1 throws to F2, who now steps on the plate,
just ahead of the now conscious R3. R3 only tried to return to touch home, when alerted to the fact he missed home.
This is an appeal play of a missed home plate and Rule 7.10(d) applies. Rule 7.10(d) reads "...he fails to touch home base and makes no attempt to return to that base, and home base is tagged."
The runner was making an attempt to return to the base, and the ball arrived just ahead of his return. J/R defines unrelaxed action as, ..."the runner (whose action is being appealed) is trying to scramble to a base and the ball is in, or approaching, the vicinity." J/R goes on to say that a missed base appeal of first or home
by way of taging the alleged missed base can only occur when the action is relaxed.
This is the relevant appeal rule and the relevant use of relaxed versus unrelaxed action. If the runner is scrambling back to the base, a tag appeal of the runner is the only option offered to the defense. They cannot tag the base if the runner is scrambling back to the base, regardless of how long it took said runner to start scrambling. Immediate doesn't factor into the equation because that stipulation is not a part of the relevant appeal rule. The runner is unrelaxed and a tag of said runner is the only way to appeal.
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I'm not going to answer your question because if you read my post you would know the answer. If you will read it again very carefully you will learn how I would rule in this situation. Hint = key word = immediate.
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[Edited by Kaliix on Feb 16th, 2005 at 10:56 PM]