Wed May 23, 2007, 07:36pm
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Never Stop Learning
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 518
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Originally Posted by bkbjones
A little different slant, but still...
12Us playing 14B in a local tournament. 11-4, nobody out, bottom of 3, winning team is (of course!) visitors, and it's a little more than a drizzle.
Ball hit back to pticher, she kicks it into foul territory on the first base side. Catcher is trailing the play, gets the ball, and throws to 1B for the out. Of course the runner goes to the orange and 1B goes to white. I say nothing except out.
After the half-inning, Mr. Preventative here gets the two coaches together and explains that in a perfect (dry) world (and one in which I hadn't just taken a Benadryl, which I found out I can not do with all these other meds), the runner coulda shoulda been safe and I can't coach your players BUT someone is gonna call that runner safe...or call that runner out...depending on the case, the mood of the umpire, and whether the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
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John, I'm not understanding why the runner should have been called safe. If the ball is coming from the foul side of first base the defense and the batter-runner may use either the white or colored portion of the base.
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