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Originally posted by Mike Goble
Fed situation *8.2.3 states that the defense is required to appeal the play, and that casually stepping on the base is an appeal. It's interesting that they also say that it's a force play on the continuing action.
If the BR missed 1st and F3 simply caught the ball as he usually does with no other effort, would you consider that an appeal?
Is there a Fed definition of an appeal?
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IIRC, FED has revised this play several times over the past several years. I've preferred to think of it not as an "accidental appeal" but as "a strict interpretation fo force out" (defense tags the base before the runner touoches the base). That's what happened in the play at hand.