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Barring orders to the contrary, I’ve got nothing other than a shorter leash on the O, maybe one or more EJ reports and a topic for post game with the crew. I contend that the ball was never “properly” live following the dead ball.
I propose word-smithing 5.1.4 (how to make a dead ball live) to include what is provided in 8.2.2 so that it reads something like, “…in their respective boxes, all runners return to their appropriate base, and the umpire…”
Also, 8.2.9 provides that each “runner returns to the base he had reached or passed when the ball became dead.”
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