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Originally posted by mcrowder
Try to show, via the rulebook, that R3 is NOT allowed to physically assist R2.
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You can't, except possibly by broad inference. The definition of a runner is
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who has reached first base
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and has not yet been put out.
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The inference case can be made from Rule 8-7-P, where the retired runner is lumped together with a runner who has scored.
But, as I said, I'll let the protest committee make that inference. On the field, I'd allow the R3 assist of R2.