Tue Jul 30, 2002, 09:27pm
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Quote:
Originally posted by BktBallRef
Quote:
Originally posted by SDUMP
At a tournament in another town, I had a play where my first baseman fielded a low throw cleanly (with his foot on the bag), but sat down in front of the basepath, thus getting run over by the batter-runner and dropping the ball.
A young umpire (17 or 18) came up with a safe call since the ball was on the ground. Unfortunately, my reaction was the same as my parents - loud disbelief, then "oh, well," it's over. Move on. After the game, I had a discussion with the young man about that play and we agreed that a runner that was already out couldn't make himself safe again by running into the first baseman and knocking the ball out. I told the young man that I screwed up the worst, because I became a "coach/spectator" as far as yelling, instead of approaching him calmly and asking him to give me his interpretation of the play.
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Okay, for some of you who call baseball, is this batter-runner out or safe? 
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Tony,
Easy call....
Runner is out because the wreck was not considered "continuous action". 
mick
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