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[Quote = onebyone]I know its a DB if a runner leaves early, when two leave its still a dead ball.[/quote]Even if you don't call it immediately, it is a dead ball the moment the FIRST runner leaves a base. Two can't leave - the ball is dead already before the 2nd steps off. As to which one to call out - that's why we get paid ... to make a judgement. Which runner left their base first - that is the one that is out. Not the trailing runner, leading runner, or runner on a particular base ... the one that stepped off first.
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