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Here was the situation :
Championship game in playoffs 8th inning (FED RULES) . Home team has runners on first and third when the batter hits a deep fly ball to center . Runner on third tags up correctly and scores ahead of the throw and apparantly ball game is over as team swarms the field .
20 minutes after the game about 5 or 6 reporters converge on the losing manager and the opening question is "Did you realize that the guy on first did not tag up properly and if you threw to first after the run had scored he would have been out at first and the run would NOT have scored ? "
the losing manager says that he was not looking at the guy on first and didn't realize it .
The oversight by the losing manager was a prominent piece in the paper the next day replete with quotes from the winning manager saying that he couldn't believe the losing team didn't see it or realize it until it was too late . As a basketball official I know that coaches don't always know the rules so good .
I read through the rulebook and case book specifically rule 9-1-1 and it appears as if both the manager from the winning team and the reporter were incorrect in saying that the losing team could have thrown to first base AFTER the run had scored and appeal the lack of a tag and thus nullify the run . Am I correct in saying that the run would have counted anyway ?
To sum up :
1) Runners on 1st and 3rd in extra innings
2) batter hits Sac fly to score runner from 3rd
3) runner on 1st goes halfway on the flyball and joins the celebration as soon as the run scores and never tagging up .
Is there ANY WAY to nullify the run other then throwing out the guy at 1st before the run scores ?
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