Baltimore vs Boston

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Carl Childress


Tim and I aren't interested in unpublished comments from non-rule interpreters.

Neither am I! So, I'll go with the next best thing and hang my hat on what a professional instructor teaches. Without clear cut explanations by the rules committee, how could one go wrong?



Exactly how does the running lane keep the batter-runner from crashing into the fielder?

As was said before, sometimes you have to use common sense and fair play. If one has any judgement at all he/shecan certainly reason that one out.

You can't get away with: "He's out because he was in the lane."

Don't know where you are coming from or going on that one. I certainly believe that there can be interference in the lane as well as outside the lane.

Ergo, the only possible reason the rulesmakers could have had for keeping it was to prevent the batter-runner from screening the fielder -- on a throw from behind.

Yes, and you have that written and published documentation of that interpretation from the rulesmakers readily available but I cannot find those citations here.

Sorry, but your "example" had already been discussed -- and dismissed -- at great length on Officiating.com.

And I wonder why those people with professional aspirations spend all of that money when they can spend a few minutes and find the good stuff right here?