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Originally Posted by MD Longhorn
You're not cutting anyone anything. Passing is a call you do not make unless you're POSITIVE R2 passed R1. The benefit of the doubt goes the opposite direction that you're giving it. You're not measuring, extrapolating, superimposing to try to excuse a possible pass... you're only calling him out for passing if you are absolutely sure that he did so.
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And in order to be absolutely sure, you will have to measure, extrapolate and superimpose.
Sorry, but I cannot for the life of me justify not making that call if R1 stops short of the plate to high-five trail runners, no matter how close he remains to the plate, and the trail runners go on by.
You're right, it's not in the rule book. But I just find it hard to believe that the rule makers would not consider a runner who touches home after a previous runner stops short of it as a form of passing.
Using your argument, R2 could be completely in front of R1, with the exception of his pinky finger of his trailing hand being intertwined with R1's pinky finger of his leading hand, and not have passed him. Even though R2's torso is almost six feet ahead of R1's torso, you would say R2 isn't out yet.