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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
A fair point, and you're probably right. BU should have an eye partially on BR - he's still responsible for possible OBS and the touch at first base. I'd hope that he would notice, at some point, that BR was not where he thought he should be and would then try to peripherally locate him.
But yeah - his primary focus will be on his end of the rundown, so this could get missed.
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Situations like this are where I disagree with bracketing rundowns in the 2 umpire system. With multiple runners, one umpire has to be responsible for the trailing runners.
In this specific situation, the PU would have the entire rundown between third and home as that is the lead runner and the BU would have the batter-runner.
Communication between the two umpires is the key here.