Award after throw goes dead

[Carl Childress]

Originally posted by greymule
If someone leaves a base too soon and advances, he does not legally occupy the next base and is subject to being called out on appeal.

Yes, he can be out on appeal, but for the purposes of awards, he does legally occupy the next base. He also legally occupied the base he left too soon or missed.

Maybe somebody can list the ways in which a runner can illegally occupy a base. All I can think of offhand is that a runner cannot legally occupy a base if a preceding runner is already legally occupying it.

On hand, I'd say you are right. (That assumes you aren't running the bases in reverse order to confuse the defense.)(