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Old Wed Mar 22, 2006, 01:27pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by mg43
I asked the umpire why she was out and his response was that once she made a turn into the field, she was committed to proceed to 2nd. Ever since then, I have insisted that my players always come to a complete stop on the base after a walk without even the slightest hint of looking into the field.
I may be off base here, but it sounds like the umpire may have confused this with a player returning to 1B after running through the bag as the batter-runner.
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