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"Each runner including the batter-runner is awarded:
One base:
If forced from the base occupied by a following runnr who must advance because of batter receives a fourth ball, is hit by a pitched ball..."
USSSA 9.11.D.4.
Fed and Pony should have the same clause, but my books are in the car and it is raining.
The baseball answer is clear. NAPBL rulling (I think), the runner is entitled to the next base on the award, (as in the above softball rule) and therefore any outs made beyond the base awared are not relavant to preceeding runners attaining their base. The statement was that R3 was entitled to advance to home due to the award.
The rule requiring all awarded bases to be leagally run would not negate a force out from negating the run.(USSSA 9.9)
Since the rules are congruent on this from baseball and softball, the interpertation should be the same. I would score the run if a following runner was put out after reaching the awarded base but before the run scores on the awarded base.
Roger Greene
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