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Old Mon Mar 12, 2007, 08:40am
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Originally Posted by azbigdawg
Balls gotta beat the runner there.... if not.... safe....
Call us back when you read the rest of the rulebook. The book says one thing for BR, the opposite for runner - and it's almost a definite thing that they didn't intend for a tie to go to the BR, but not to a runner.

Any good umpire knows there's no such thing as a tie, and that it's our job to differentiate between ball-beats-runner and runner-beats-ball. If you'd like to join that club, feel free.

But this thread was not about ties....
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