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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
If she had run to 2nd after third, I could more easily see this as running the bases backward.
However, going from the batter's box to third is not going backward ... it's just going to third. She wasn't "on" home... she was just near it.
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So under your logic, B hits the ball, steps on home plate, and stays there. Ball goes to F1 in the circle, never having gone to F3 at 1B. PU calls time.
Award a run because she ran to home and stopped? What if she had just ran from home to 2B straight past F1 and stopped there?
It is not only a fundamental game concept to run from the BBox to 1B, 2B, 3B, and HP in that order, but it is rule (ASA 5.5.A.1). Break the rule by running backwards, you're out. Appealed for missing a base, you're out.
In your O, leaving the runner on 3B not only creates a major disadvantage to the defense, but you're now in the realm of determining what you think is confusion on the Offensive's part... and they're only 10, so poor little girls? They don't know any better?
No. Wrong.
Call the out. You don't have any ability or rule to allow you to determine that the offensive team was confused in this situation... only that the offensive confused the fielders.