Tagged on a force out

[Dave Reed]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Yes, it is correct. See Bob's post for why your's isn't.

All right, I'll try again. Garth said: "The run does not score when the third out occurs before the batter/runner safely reaches first."

This implies that the run doesn't score if any third out occurs before B/R safely reaches first. In fact for this part of 4.09(a) Exception to hold, the third out must be made by the B/R, and by the B/R only. Obviously both you and Bob Jenkins know this, but for the benefit of others I included a ubiquitously cited situation to demonstrate that the above quoted statement isn't quite right.

There are other ways for the exception to be invoked, but in those cases the status of the B/R is not relevant.

I'm not sure what part of my original post you think is incorrect, but I like to think that the paraphrase of rule 4.09 is correct. And this current post shows that I think my first paragraph was also right.