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Originally Posted by mbyron
Not a good thing to remember, because it's wrong. It penalizes the offense more to remove runners from base, but that's the wrong penalty here.
Better thing to try to remember is the actual penalty.
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Sure its best to remember the penalty, but the penalty is very complex and very hard to remember.
I always like to use guidelines to remember the rules and I teach that to young umpires. If you just call the runner out that is one penalty. Call the BR out and returning the runner is two penalties thus you have a bigger penalty.
Sometimes its a good thing for the defense to allow the runner to stay on base especially when the BR is a good hitter who is usually the ones who are going to try and "get away" with interference at the plate.
That's easier to me to recall in the spur of the moment as opposed to "with less than two out the batter is out, and runners return, and with two out the BR is out, unless the runner advancing is at third etc.,"
Thanks
David