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Originally posted by Carl Childress
R1 leaves first early and is between second and third when the ball is caught. The throw goes dead before he can retouch second. In the Old Testament, he would be out. Under the new guidelines, he would only be out if he advanced to third after the throw went dead.
You wrote: "Like that matters if R1 retouched first before the ball went dead."
Like it does.
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What if the umpire thought R1 didn't leave early?
So you call the pitch a strike, and the offensive manager comes out to you and says he wants to protest. He says that you called a strike on a ball that didn't pass through the strike zone.
JM's protest is the same thing. He saw something, and he assumed the umpire saw the same thing.