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"Tie goes to the runner"
I was the one who posted the recent "Rules Myths" update on here, and every year at this time I'm trying to improve it.
I've been thinking about the myth in the title of this post and if I've really explained it to the letter of the rule:
Tie goes to the runner. FALSE. It doesn’t go to the fielders, either. The umpire must judge either the runner beating the throw or the throw beating the runner. Ties do not exist.
All the vets are familiar with the wording of OBR rule 7.08e:
Any runner is out when...He or the next base is tagged before he touches the next base, after he has been forced to advance by reason of the batter becoming a runner.
FED uses similar wording.
The wording "is tagged BEFORE he touches the next base" has been widely interpretted as "Tie goes to the runner".
Is this the correct interpretation, vets?
Granted, in my last umpteen years of officiating, I have never judged a tie, and doubt that I ever will. However, should the "myth" in the title really be considered a myth?
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