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The play is out of date.
Greymule:
Let me begin with a BTW: FED does not use decimal points (dots, periods, whatever you call them) between sections of their rules. Your citation should read 8-4-5b.
The FED casebok uses the decimals: 8.3.4 Situation I, for example.
I bring this up because I looked in the casebook for 8.4.5b and couldn't find it. "Ah, ha," said I to my smart self, "Smart Self, he's still working with the 2001 casebook." So I dug that out and ....
Remember, the runner always get two bases from the time of the pitch when the ball is dead. (That's directly in the FED book right where you're reading.)
Last year, the umpire would have turned to R1 and said: "You -- go to the bench. He's out." No appeal, right?
This year: He's going to get that award. The umpire says: "You -- third base!" And R1 goes to third.
And the defense appeals that he left first too soon.
And the umpire NOW calls him out.
See? He gets the award, but his retouch at first does not cure his baserunning error because he had passed a subsequent base at the time the ball went dead.
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