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Old Sat May 10, 2014, 03:15pm
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally Posted by Dakota View Post
I never really understood why this action is illegal in the first place. In every other place on the field, the runner can choose whatever base path she wants... forward, backward, wide arcs, whatever.
And in every other place on the field, there is the possibility that the runner can be safe by retreating to a base. Not even a remote possibility with a BR

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I do understand that she cannot retreat to home as a "base", but why is it illegal to retreat as part of any other base-running strategy or purpose?
See above.

See, the problem lies with the point that the coaches don't know how to beat this rule. I do.
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