[greymule]

One part of the POE play is now irrelevant and should be removed: the fact that the runner is between 2B and 1B when the ball goes out of play.

Before ASA changed their rule (for the 2002 season), if the runner was past 2B when the ball went into DBT, then he was not permitted to return to touch 1B (as in Fed). Therefore, for the POE they had to devise a play in which the runner was between 2B and 3B when the ball was thrown, but between 2B and 1B when it went into DBT.

Now a runner can return to touch a base left too soon even if he is beyond the "next" base, as long as he initiates his return before the award is made. That part was clarified for 2003, if the ambiguous wording ASA used can be considered clarification.

[Edited by greymule on Aug 6th, 2003 at 03:42 PM]