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Originally Posted by Forest Ump
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You can't have a BOO when a sub enters un-announced. He will always be a proper batter because he takes the slot that is due up.
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Forest,
Excellent analysis! Well, almost.
You actually could have a BOO on an unannounced sub if he were an
illegal sub. That is, a non-starter re-entering in a spot other than the one he had originally occupied, or a starter who had left the game, re-entered, left again, and then re-entered in a different spot in the batting order than he had originally occupied.
Of course, in those cases the penalty for an illegal sub would supersede the penalty for BOO, per 3-1-1 (1st sentence, top of page 26 in the 2011 FED rule book).
The only way an unannounced sub could be BOO, AND you would enforce the BOO penalty, would be a starter who had already left the game once and then re-entered in a different position in the batting order than he originally occupied in the lineup, unannounced.
While I concur that it is a "shame", this seems to be something that otherwise competent umpires seem to screw up from time to time.
JM