Well, it helps if you look it up, as Casey Stengel said.
Apologies to Jim Porter. Warren, you and I are just flat wrong.
Here's the relevant quote from Cris Jones:
"[The runner may] come back out of the dugout to correct a baserunning
mistake if he does it in a timely manner. Once he has walked away from the plate and/or
gone into the dugout, the defense does not have to tag him. They need only appeal."
I know why I missed this. I was so shocked the runner could return from the dugout, I simply did not imprint on my brain the fact that after he enters the dugout, 7.01(d) is no longer in effect.
I have also gone back to read carefully the play Wendelstedt ruled on. In that play the writer is careful to say that the runner beat the ball back to the plate. Apparently, then, even in 1989 it was the same as the Jones' ruling.
My last comment: How the heck did I miss this for 11 years?
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Papa C
Editor, eUmpire
[This message has been edited by Carl Childress (edited September 01, 2000).]
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