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Angry coach ruling
Actually, it makes all the differerence in the world as to whether the pitch is a strike or a ball:
1) If a strike, then you have a batter-runner who is awarded !B and they must fulfill their obligation (i.e - proceed to 1B) or they can jeopardize this walk off win w/ a properly made appeal -- regardless of what the runner at third does or does not do
2) If a ball, there is no burden on batter to do anything except not assist the winning runner coming home
Either way, the runner on third is awarded home, but in the first case her winning run is conditional upon what the BR does and the defense's response
I can visualize IN THIS CASE, if either runner is to be called out on appeal for failure to fulfill obligations, 90% of the time it will be the BR failing to proceed to 1B, not the winning run failing to touch home -- especially if the "winners" are in the first base dugout
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