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My understanding is to not allow the runner to return to third and leave the batter up is to prevent a "try again" on suidcide squeezes. That is, if there were R3 with no outs the offense would potentially have three suidcide squeeze tries (each perhaps with a different BI variation!). The rule as stated allows one chance and that's it if you violate the rules. Runners on R2 and R1 would not create a similar situation.
Rules are imperfect and inconsistent as coaches always try to circumvent them.
Last edited by GerryB; Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 09:46am.
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