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Originally Posted by kdf5
Not to start a fight but how can the rule book be wrong?
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It can contradict itself (say one thing in one place and something different in another) or can be incomplete. This is one place I think it's incomplete.
(Jim Evans has frequently cited over 200 errors in the official rules of baseball. You can't put every scenario in the book and have everything covered or consistent. It's not a book written by lawyers for lawyers.)
The enforcement of an USC foul by A during a score is as you said - succeeding spot. I do think they meant to give the same choice here as they gave in 8-2-4 -- or they bridged this part of the enforcement to the succeeding spot, which yields the choice given in 8-2-4 -- they just neglected to write the rule properly or rewrite another rule to make this happen.
I don't think that the Redding book and the Bin Book would get this wrong on purpose, either.
Step away and look at spirit and intent of the change. Why would this *not* fit?
That said, I'm more than willing to abide by the state office and how they decide. The message we'd been given all along is that enforcement is easy. The only time we have to apply on the try is at the end of the game and only under certain circumstances.