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Originally posted by NSABlue
I've been reading this board for two seasons and have finally decided to post. High School varsity game played under NFHS rules. The starting catcher gets a base hit in the first inning. The coach legally replaces her with a courtesy runner as he always does because the catcher is a girl of size and wears a knee brace. She can hardly run at all. Anyway, later in the game, the coach has put made several defensive changes and the starting catcher is now playing 3rd base. She comes up to bat and gets another base hit. Coach yells time and sends out the same courtesy runner but of course you can't have a courtesy runner for the third baseman. A pitch is thrown and the opposing coach protests. Since the runner is an available sub, is this treated as an unreported sub and issue a team warning or do we call the runner out and restrict her to the bench?
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Interesting question. When the coach approached the PU, what did he say. Did he say that he wanted to put in so and so as a courtesy runner? If so, the PU should have, at that time, told the coach that he cannot do this. That would have eliminated all of the problems then and there. All subs, CRs included, must be reported to the plate umpire. If the CR or the sub was not reported to the PU, then you have an unreported sub.
When the coach "yells time and sends out the same courtesy runner," was nothing said about a courtesy runner coming in to the plate umpire?
By the way...welcome to the board.