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Originally Posted by clevbrown
ASA Fast Pitch. No one on base, the batter swings at the 3rd strike and the cacther drops the ball. The batter starts walking toward her 3rd base dug out. Half way to the dug out she realizes it is a dropped 3rd strike, so she takes off running through the pitcher mound to 1st base and reaches it prior to getting tagged or the ball arriving at 1st base.
The question, is the batter/runner required to run back to home plate and then on to 1st, or can she run directly from wherever she is at to 1st base?
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She can run to the outfield fence in left field, follow it to right field and down the line to 1B.
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