Mon Jun 26, 2006, 03:55pm
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Originally Posted by MNBlue
ASA 8.10.A
The team at bat may use a courtesy runner for the pitcher and/or the catcher at any time...
NFHS
8.9.2
...The pitcher or catcher must bat and reach base legally (or earn their way on base) in order to be eligible for a courtesy runner.
To answer the OP, I would allow it in an ASA game, but if it was an NFHS game using the ITB, I would not allow it. I wouldn't consider the runner to have had earned her way on base.
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Why not? She earned her way on base because she is the person preceding the batter leading off the inning.
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