[Rich Ives]

Originally Posted by umpire64

Rich,

Please understand, I am not saying I agree with this test, the way it was written is very poor indeed. In the OBA they only play 7 innings, so if the home team is ahead in the bottom of the 7th (AKA the last inning) the game is over at that point and there would be no need for the umpire to call the game due to darkness.

As for the plate, I also agree that there is not enough information, but since they do not state that the batters foot is "entirely" out of the batters box we must assume that his heel is still touching the chalk of the batters box and is not entirely out of the batters box, therfore this is legal. (There is no rule that says just because the batter touches the plate with his foot while making contact with the ball he should be out) The rule does however say that if the batters foot is entirely outside of the batters box then he or she is out.

The game would automatically be over upon the scoring of run #3 so they could NOT score three runs EXCEPT if it was a HR in which case they all count. As the question said 3 runs scored it must be on a HR and they do count.