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The play:
"runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs, when the #4 hitter drives this towering shot ... snip ... F9 follows the flight of the ball into the wall, and makes a relatively easy catch as it comes off the wall. The 1st base coach (who was at the plate meeting) is yelling for the BR to go to 2nd, meanwhile, the 3rd base coach (who was not at the plate meeting) is yelling for R1 to go back to 2nd. R2, who is now at 2nd, sees runners coming at her from both directions, so she freezes on 2nd and we end up with 3 runners on 2nd base. In the meantime, F9 has played the ball into F4 who dutifully tags all three runners, and I banged two of them out."
OK, so BR/R3 is out regardless. R1 is out if tagged first as a force out.
If BR/R3 is tagged after 1st base, the force is not removed because the force is only BR going to 1st, R2 going to 2nd, R1 going to 3rd. I don't see how R2 can be out if R2 was forced to 2nd by the BR, beats the tag there and stays there.
[Edited by CecilOne on May 5th, 2003 at 02:39 PM]
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