Overthrow question... I know its been answered before.. humor me.

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by Fisk

Ok... so to clarify with another example...

R1 is on first and gets in a run down while trying to advance to 2nd base. To avoid being tagged out R1 retreats back towards first and the ball in overthrown and goes out of play. (Behind 1st base)

R1 would then be awarded 2nd and 3rd correct?


Last one...

Batter hits ball to 2nd basemen who playing deep bobles the ball and attempts to throw the ball to 1st However Batter (who is now a base runner) crosses 1st base before the 2nd basemen has thrown the ball which then goes out of play. Is batter (r1) awarded 2nd and 3rd?

For the first play, you are correct. R1 gets third base on the ball thrown into DBT. This is regardless of whether or not the throw by the second baseman was the first play by an infielder, as he was on first at TOP.


For the second play, this was the first play by an infielder, so the two base award would be from the time of the pitch. This would leave the batter-runner on second, not third.



Tim.

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by PWL

Reading through the thread, I was wondering if anybody was going to catch where the batter/runner had crossed the base before the throw from the second baseman and award him third.

Yeah, I kicked that one when I first read the post. Rich and Bob set me straight though.


Tim.