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Old Mon Jun 07, 2010, 05:29pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by mbcrowder View Post
But we have an answer in the rulebook, and you quoted it. Anything that the UMPIRE judges is a play ... is a play.
Actually, ASA defines a play in Rule 1.

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Mike - I've been gone a while. I too think the rule can be done away with ... but what do you propose replaces it? Simply requiring the runner to be back before the pitcher pitches? Or something else?
What do you do in SP? Same thing.
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