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Ok I'm confused. At a Gerry Davis clinic last year we discussed the batter-being-hit-by-the-ball situation and Scott Ehret said that in softball the base is a sanctuary but that is not the case in baseball. In reading this thread and the FED case play I am under the assumption that as long as a fielder is playing in front of the runner or a fielder has no play on the ball whatsoever, the ball is still alive and runner not out. So did brandda make the right call when he called R3 out after getting hit by a ball that, by being hit down the line, no one really had a chance to catch (assumption).
If you keep the ball alive that gives the third baseman a chance to throw out the runner at first (depending on which way the ball ricocheted off R3) or at least keep the runner at third. Am I making any sense here?
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