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Originally Posted by WestMichiganBlue
Batted ball to F6, B-R dives in to 1B, touching the white bag with his hand, beating the throw.
While still laying on the ground and touching the base, the B-R is tagged by F3 who appeals for a missed base. B-R still has not touched the colored bag, but - OTOH - the appeal has to be made before the B-R returns to the bag.
So is he out - touching the white base is no different than being off the base returning from RF?
Or safe because it is too late to appeal?
WMB
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What idiot dives into 1B with a double-bag and not avoiding a tag? That alone may be cause to ring him up.
The BR never left the base, so he cannot "return", failed to touch the appropriate base when a play was obviously being executed at 1B and never "passed" the base to allow 8.3.B into consideration.
Granted, the umpire would really have to be on top of this play to see the hand touching the wrong base, but for the scenario offered, I'll honor the appeal.