Tue Oct 29, 2002, 05:39pm
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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by chuckfan1
Hey gang, new to this board. Someone reccommended it to me to check on rules etc. Have umped the past few years as a duty of being a mgr, and this is my first full year "on the clock".
Im learning new things all the time, and continaully trying to improve. Heres one thats got me paranoid. Batting out of turn. Ive read and re-read the book several times, but I cant get it to "click". That is, make total sense in my noggin, so if it happens, I can recall the it instantly and make the right call.
Now I can handle the most basic of this infraction, I think, but is there a quick rule of thumb that I can follow? No matter how big a cluster **** it might become?? Thanks......
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Chuck:
There's no penalty unless the batter the defense is gripping about has finished his at bat. So....
The important thing to remember is you have to check only the last two batters. Everybody before that is legal, regardless of how many batted out of order.
The names you want to check are:
Batter Just Finished
Batter Previous
If Batter Just Finished does not follow Batter Previous on the card, then Batter Just Finished is improper and Batter Listed Next is out.
(Note: This has been amended as per Caselli's comment.)
That's the best way to enforce the rules all the gentleman -- and Rita C -- above gave you.
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