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Saw a very similar play a few weeks ago. R1 and R2, one out. Pitcher catches R2 off the bag; rundown ensues for about 10 throws with R2 making a safe, head first slide back to 2B. Meanwhile, R1 advances to 2B.
Now we have both R2 and R1 on 2B. SS tags both runners. BU rightly calls R2 safe(base still belongs to R2) as he points points to R2 then calls R1 out as both verbally and by pointing. R2, who was face down, thought he was called out, gets up to walk away, gets tagged. Double play.
Two innings later, the same thing almost happened again--except that the leaning runner, R2, was tagged out in the rundown.
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Umpires: Expected to be perfect at the start of the game and get better by the end.
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