Help on tag play

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert E. Harrison

Last time I checked a tag play can be a force out. I am not holding it against anyone. I know a lot of umpires that beat themselves up on close plays. They linger in the umpire's mind much longer than they should. Call the play and move on to the next one without the baggage. Like Mr. Klem said "It ain't nothing until I call it and that is what it is."

Sure, a force play can be completed with a tag ... but it doesn't normally happen that way AT a base.

My point, though, was that you seemed to be implying that any runner who dared attempt a base that he wasn't forced to advance to was going to be called out because you feel he shouldn't have tried.