Thread: Missed first base and then tagged
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Old Mon Jun 26, 2006, 10:13pm
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Originally Posted by CoachJM
GrizzlyUmp14,

If the BR is tagged while off the base, having missed 1B, he is out.

JM
I have to disagree. BR is allowed to over run 1B. When he passes the bag, the BR has achieved the bag for purpose of the rule. Merely tagging him is not enough, an appeal must be an unmistakable act (as SDS writes) or a verbal request.
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