Thread: Abandonment?
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Old Fri Apr 26, 2013, 08:05am
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Originally Posted by oldadmark View Post
BR to 1st base and touches legally. Turns and thinks she's out. Starts moving back down the baseline toward home plate and her dugout. Tagged by 1st base player. Out? Safe? Is she even liable to be tagged out before she enters the dugout? When does abandonment begin?
When you say "toward home plate", do you mean beyond 1st base, or between 1st base and home plate. If the former - she's not out, she's merely returning to 1st after legally over-running it (albeit meanderingly). If the latter, see Atl's response.

And I would not have abandonment here in FED ... not yet. Abandonment is not a GOTCHA call ... it's a fall-back to use when runners truly do leave.
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