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Originally posted by bob jenkins
In a FPSR violation, both R1 and BR are out. Since the conditions aren't met to ignore the balk, enforce it. Put R1's replacement on second and send the batter back to the plate.
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That's what the umpires ruled but the game was protested and the protest committee overruled the umpires. It was also submitted to the NCAA but I don't know what their ruling was.
I don't know the protest committees thought process either. I think that part of it had to do with the fact that R1 had been called safe at second. The violation was considered along the same lines as an overslide; in other words, R1 achieved second safely and then was called out on the FSPR. I don't know how they finessed the BR at first. Perhaps since there were already two outs, they ignored the BR. More likely, the brutality of the hit (R1 knocked out the second basemant with a helmet to the head), clouded the protest committee's judgment.
[Edited by Bob Lyle on Oct 18th, 2005 at 01:48 PM]