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Originally Posted by fitzpats
Couldn't the offensive team have substituted the eligible sub for the current batting spot. This would render the courtesy runner to be "benched" but was still eligible to run as any person on the roster, including substitutes, could be the courtesy runner. While the courtesy runner's spot did come up to bat, why wouldn't a substitution negate the out? In theory, the runner on third is not the courtesy runner, but the original hitter, and the person coming to bat is on the bench. A substitution would keep that hitter on the bench.
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we did have a sub available and could have called time and entered the substitute into the batting order before the 2nd walk was issued(this wasn't our plan as we believed we could use our substitute whenever) but the two intentional walks were handled casually and informally and treated as 1 event without either player actually coming to the plate so even if we had wanted to we would not have had the opportunity to make the substitution legally. .....once the 2nd intentional walk was completed was when the courtesy runners official at bat begins so he had to come off of 3rd base which created the 3rd out of the inning. If we had called time after the first intentional walk and substituted for the now on-deck courtesy runner or even for the original batter who was being ran for I believe we would have been fine....some lessons are learned the hard way.