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Originally Posted by TwoBits
R3 and catcher tied getting to the plate 
Okay, seriously, R3 beat the catcher to the plate and contact between R3 and catcher occured on the plate. |
Then here's the question of the day. Did the catcher have possession of the ball when both he and the runner got to the plate? I may have read your initial post wrong, but I though in reading it that he did have possession, and was turning to make a tag when the contact occured. To me this is a tricky one because the runner has the right of way to homeplate when he's in that close of a vicinity. He doesn't have to veer off and entirely miss homeplate if F2 is moving out to field a batted ball just to give way to the fielder if in fact F2 didn't have possesion of the ball.
Tim.