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Originally posted by greymule
The pitch to B5 made the previous batter legal. That was B3. Since B4 is on 3B and cannot be taken off the base, B5 is now the legal batter. One pitch to B5 and everything is water under the bridge.
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That is only true if appealed while B5 is at bat. If appealed after B5 completes the at bat, but before the first pitch to B6, B4 IS declared out and removed from base, the result of B5's at bat is nullified (excepting any outs on the play) and B5 is brought back to bat (unless B5 was put out on the play, in which case B6 comes to bat).
[Edited by Dakota on Mar 3rd, 2005 at 02:07 PM]