[chris s]

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Originally posted by BJ Moose:
I am surprised that no one really answered the question. THE INFRACTION, of moving more that 3 feet out of "baseline" to avoid a tag happens 10 feet from bag.. so it is clearly in the BU area. PU moving to the 45 can clearly see that there is an infraction.. B-R is swerving.. say 5 feet to avoid tag. But BU angle does not allow him to judge this.. he had no tag and a SAFE.

Question was... Does anyone want PU to jump in and make this call immediately? "Runner is OUT for moving out of baseline to avoid a tag!" Perhaps we CAN allow this.. after all.. PU WOULD make an out call for a lane violation.. right?!

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Moose is DA MAN!
Or antlered one, as Bob P. used to say. You have just restated what my question of my situation was, THE INFRACTION. As a BU, we are taught to help PU with the "time" call when the batter drills himself in the foot, correct? Then should it be allowed to call an obvious infraction, in this particular scenario(Br only).
When this play happened, I knew pard was screened off of the swipe tag, he never saw the attempted tag. F1 screwed up by soft-tossing ball to F3, which was way short and drew F3 10 feet inside, instant congestion for Bu that may have been in a little tight. I dunno, but maybe DA MAN(carl) will have an answer for the original question of ," as PU, can I bang a runner 10 feet from bag for a lane, and/or swipe tag avoidance violation?" ))

Weak grounder to F1, very fast runner booking it to first, soft toss by F1 to F3 results in F3 leaving bag and catching ball about 10 feet towards home, he is right on the line.
Br is a few steps from F3, he then veers well outside of the lane as F3 attempts a swipe tag and misses.

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[This message has been edited by chris s (edited September 07, 2000).]