[wadeintothem]

· Tie goes to the runner. FALSE. It doesn’t go to the fielder, either. The runner either beats the throw or the throw beats the runner. Ties do not exist.

I think this has more to do with "guessing a runner out" - if its so close you cant really tell - they are safe as opposed to out.

It also seems odd to say that there cannot be a tie - the ball and the runner could in fact get there at the exact same time, or so close the human eye could not tell, in which case, the runner should be declared safe; as you would not guess that they runner was out, or guess that the ball beat the runner there..

Hence the saying - which is probably more a saying than a myth such as my most hated myth "hands part of the bat" which I hear every year.