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Old Thu Aug 12, 2010, 06:38am
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Originally Posted by Welpe View Post
Regardless, say that in your opinion the action were unrelaxed, would you still consider a tag of the base to be enough for the appeal?
The reason for making the relaxed/unrelaxed distinction is that the BR is permitted by rule to overrun 1B without liability to be put out. So we allow a missed base appeal by just tagging the base during unrelaxed action because the BR is making no attempt to correct his mistake. It speeds things up.

I have heard that MLB is moving away from relaxed/unrelaxed, but I like it. It makes sense to me. So, to answer your question, no: I would require that the runner be tagged.
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