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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
ASA FP or SP with home runs available.
Bases loaded, two outs, bottom of 7th, home down by 3 runs.
B6 hits a ball deep, R5 got a late start off of 1st base watching the ball clear the centerfield fence. BR/R6 catches and passes R5 between 2nd & 3rd base.
You, as the umpire, allow 4 runs to score. Defense protests that there was a passing the runner violation after the first two runners crossed the plate.
Valid protests? Who wins the game? As the UIC, what rule do you cite to validate your ruling?
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First, don't think that a protest would be honored. If nothing was called,
what rule was misinterpt for a protest to be honored? Not an appeal play.
Did BU/PU see the passing?
Don't see it, can't call it.
Second, 4 runs cannot score, only two possible, since two outs and the 3rd
out occurred on the passing.
Rule 8-7D
With 2 outs only those preceding runners score who have touched HP before
the batter is declared out. Timing play, no an appeal play.
I say visitors win by 1.