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Nobody on, nobody out. BR after a D3S is not fully aware of the situation but begins to jog to first, failing to drop the bat. Catcher has trouble coming up with the baseball and BR safely crosses first base, with the bat in hand. I searched my rulebook and could find a specific ruling. Rule 9.01c states that the umpire has authority to rule on any point not specifically covered in these rules. I think I would call the runner out for disrupting the natural flow of the game but I may be missing something.. thoughts>?
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Disrupting the natural flow of the game? :p
checks rulebook, nope, not there Hell, if thats a criterion for baseball, only about 1% of games would ever be played. |
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..it makes those interference calls really spectacular at 2B and 3B. |
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I swear, it we could remove 9.01c in OBR and its mate FED 10-2-2, many of these people would have to give up umpiring! Baseball is officiated by rules, not myths! Sorry if I sound like I am getting fed up but to tell the truth, the caliber of umpiring that I am seeing lately and the posts that I am reading lately is leading me to believe that no one is opening a rule book anymore! I will now renew my medication! |
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I swear, it we could remove 9.01c in OBR and its mate FED 10-2-2, many of these people would have to give up umpiring! Baseball is officiated by rules, not myths! QUOTE] That would actually be FED 10-2-3-L |
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Please note that this rule was written many years ago. "GLM" is now interpreted to mean any single parent of whatever sex you are interested in. |
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Did I just write that? |
He's thinking of softball where in the 90's you could not carry the bat to first base or you were out.:rolleyes:
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Someone needs to tell umpires early in their career, and every year thereafter, that MOST umpires will never have to use 9.01c. The rules are pretty comprehensive. 9.01c is for the completely unforseen. Consider the OP ... don't you think that the rulesmakers could forsee a runner carrying the bat to first? Don't you think that if they wanted an out for this, they would have put it in the rules?
My one 9.01c situation. High pop up, not sure who is going to catch it, if anyone - between F4 and F9. I hear the crowd behind me go "OOOOOoooo!!!" and don't know why. Then BU stops in his tracks and beelines it for the 1BCoach's box ... again, I don't know why. I'm still watching the fly ball, when all of a sudden blocking my view is a parachutist! He lands somewhere near where the ball was going. Now THAT's a 9.01c situation. Stop using the rule as a crutch. |
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