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Originally Posted by voiceoflg
In ten years of broadcasting, here's something I haven't seen until last week.
NFHS, R3, two out. The pitcher steps off the rubber and tells the umpire that they want to walk the next 2 batters to make it a force out at any base. The first batter they walked just went directly to second without touching first, and the 2nd batter then went to 1st. The pitcher then appealed that the runner on 2nd never touched first and the out was called. Offense HC blamed the ump saying he should have not allowed the two walks at the same time. Ump said the runner should have touched first before going to second. I'm not sure about letting two be intentionally walked at the same time, but ultimately you have to touch first before touching second. Batter out.
Your thoughts?
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Just like we do not except Future subs we should only deal with one IW at a time, however,
in actual practice if the DM wants to walk the next 2 batters simply telling the first batter to go DIRECTLY to second and the next batter to first is no big deal and saves Time. In FED the ball is dead on an IW so why waste time.
In addition to avoid the shenanigans I would tell the OM
"Skip #23 to second on the IW and number 24 to first on the IW" so that there is no problems. Also, as Bob pointed out once the second IW was granted the defense cannot appeal anyway.
Pete Booth