The awarding of "the base you were retreating to plus one" is so common a myth that I wonder whether anyone has ever extended that principle to its logical result on other plays:
Abel on 1B is stealing on the pitch. Baker lines a ball into right-center. Abel is on his way to 3B when F9 makes a diving catch. Abel, retreating, is between 2B and 3B when F9 throws the ball over F3 and into DBT. Since Abel was between 2B and 3B when the throw left F9's hand, his two-base award would be 2B and 1B!
And if we stretch it further, if Abel had been stealing and Baker hit a long, high drive that F9 ended up catching, and Abel was actually around 3B when the ball left F9's hand, Abel would be awarded 3B and 2B, though I guess he'd still have to retouch 1B. If he was really fast and had already scored when the ball left the fielder's hand, they'd have to put him at 3B after his reverse award of home and 3B.
(Since the OP cited NFHS, I know the runner would not be able to return legally unless he actually made it back around 2B when the ball entered DBT. So we'll have to make my plays OBR. Still, the "one plus one" myth is common in both.)
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Last edited by greymule; Sat Mar 31, 2007 at 08:10am.
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