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Old Mon Feb 13, 2006, 08:57pm
AtlUmpSteve AtlUmpSteve is offline
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Oops. I only half read the question, without relating it to the actual thread. I am in complete agreement with Mike; this play was never a force play, it was a timing play. The player is required to return, and it is a timing play back to the base. In a rhtorical sense of "when does a force end?", it ends when a player forced to advance because the batter became a batter-runner reaches or passes the next base; regardless if s/he actually touches it. That is the question I thought I was answering.

Mike, you had a clean shot, and passed. You must be mellowing, my friend.
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