Never touched the base (two pitches)

[Gee]

Originally posted by CZ
Good reply and thanks! I understand what you are saying except, under what rule is it appealable? 7.10 refers to "failing to touch each base in order". Can't that only happen once he has advanced to third?

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The runner aquires a base once he passes it.

Prior to the early seventies a runner who failed to touch a base in passing was not guilty of missing the base until he touched or passed his next base OBR 7.10(B).

Now a runner does not have to touch/pass his next base to be guilty of missing the following base.

Under OBR 7.10(d) which has been extended to all bases, once the runner leaves the immediate area of the base that he failed to touched in passing, he is guilty of missing that base and can be appealed at any time, prior to a pitch, play or attempted play, until he returns and touches the missed base. G.