I thought I knew this

[UmpJM]

chris s.,

Let me offer an example. Let's say the F1 makes a good "jump spin" move to 1B and throws. The throw is a little offline and the F3 gets his glove on it, but the ball spins away. In his haste to retrieve it, the F3 inadvertently kicks the ball and it winds up in the 1B dugout. In the umpire's judgement the ball would have remained in play absent the kick.

In this situation, the proper award is two bases from TOKick. So, as I said above, this really isn't an "exception" to "one from the rubber" but really a different case. However, it could happen after a throw from the rubber.

Now, you hope you never see it. Actually, it's much more important that a defensive coach never see it - this sort of thing can take years off his life.

JM