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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
To me, since the ONLY reason F3 could be chasing and tagging a BR who has passed first would be for some sort of an appeal, I think the mere act of initiating a tag in this case is pretty strong evidence that there's an appeal being made.
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Correct. Never said there had to be a verbal, just noted that the statement "as live ball appeals do not need to be verbalized" is not absolute.
Have you ever had a firstbaseman tag every runner returning to 1B as a habit hoping to get lucky (with an out, not the runner)? Annoying as hell, but being routine, I would need an indication that he was indeed appealing the play, most likely verbal.