Legal Tag?

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by LMan

J/R sez:

"a tag occurs when the ball is live and a fielder has the ball in his hand or glove (or both) and

b) a runner is touched by any part of the glove/ball, hand/ball, or glove/hand/ball combination."


Make of that what you will.

Glove hand ball combinatinon refers to when the ball is in the hand and the hand is in the glove (the way tags should be made, especially by cathers, they are taught to make tags like this to ensure they ball doesn't get jarred lose).

Not when the ball is touching the outside of the glove. Again, go back to the definition of a tag outlined in all rulebooks.

[BlueLawyer]

I just about hate it when I agree with WWTB. I agree with him today.

This ain't a tag- see the definition in 2.00, FED 8-4-2h. It's a steep, slippery slope to start finding tags where they don't exist.

One I saw (wasn't working the game) once: R2 in a rundown. Eventually, the ball gets to F5, whose cap comes off somehow and winds up between R2 and F5's glove, in which he securely holds the ball. No tag.

(I hate losing outs!)

Strikes and outs!

[gsf23]

I posted the same think over on the softball board.

Technically, the runner is probably safe, but I think this call probably falls under the "if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.." category.

I'm trying to think of a time I have seen this and the only one I can come up with is 2B tagging a runner then throwing to first for the DP.