[greymule]

Good point, IrishMafia. The case book and POE #37 do conflict. We went through that on a thread I started several months ago, when I questioned that very statement in the rule book.

My play was, R1 on 3B, R2 on 2B, 1 out. B3 hits line drive down the left field line. R1 goes halfway home, but F7 grabs the ball on the line. F7 fires the ball to 3B to double up R1, who goes back into 3B ducking and covering his head. Ball shoots past 3B and through into DBT. R2, who had tagged up, happily sprints around 3B and passes R1, who is crouching on 3B unaware of where the ball went.

I called R2 out for passing R1, and allowed no run to score. My question was, Since "passing a runner occurs during a live ball," what was the correct call?

The consensus was my call had been correct, that the clause did not apply in that case but was in the book to cover other dead ball situations, like foul balls or time outs.

I wonder about the bases-loaded, 2-out walk in slow pitch. The ball is dead after the pitch, but what if the batter for some reason sprints to 1B, takes a turn, and in doing so passes the runner on 1B before R1 scores. If we follow the case book example, the run would not score.

[Edited by greymule on Sep 9th, 2002 at 01:27 PM]