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Old Sun Apr 14, 2013, 06:33pm
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Originally Posted by Rich Ives View Post
It's worded for the connivers. Their argument would be that "It wasn't runners on first and second, it was runners on first, second, and third." IOW "It's only in effect when there are just runners on first and second". Technically correct. A lot of laws/rules get written/rewritten becasue some clever person found the loophole. The wording you don't like fixes it.
This, and I've discovered there many more of these types in softball than baseball.
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