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Originally Posted by orangeump
thanks for telling me that, I often wondered why it was so weird.
It's just confusing and difficult to understand when you start a play;
with R1 at 3rd, R2 at 2nd R3 at first.
Doesnt it make more sense just to say R and the number of the base they start at?
bah, I am done. Thanks.
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Isn't it just as weird to have #3 before #2 of #1? The softball manner of labeling players also permit a multi-play scenario without redesignation of the active runners. It also allows for a presumption of outs (if one were to go that far). For example, if you told me R1 & R3 were at the corners with one out, I would recon R2 was retired at 2B for the out and B4 was the batter. However, that is a stretch as scenarios are not usually set up in such a manner.