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Originally Posted by Ran.D
I had this situation, Runner on 3B - Catcher drops the ball and it bounces toward the batter who kicks it 10 ft away backing out of the box (unintentionally??).
Your reasoning would give a run to the offense and take away an out from the defense.
What are you going to say to the screaming defensive coach?
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I hate this default response from so many of the posters here. First you attribute the "reasoning" to the umpire, when in fact it's the rules that provide the reasoning for this call. Second, you seem to defend the right to make a bad call by saying "If you call it right, how are you going to explain it to an irate coach!??!?!" as if that is motivation enough to call it wrong. I HATE it when posters retreat to this position. The possibility of creating an irate coach should never enter into our thought processes when making rulings.