Home run and 1st base

[Delaware Blue]

Originally Posted by greymule

The only place I have ever seen a safety base is in softball.

Little League baseball added a double first base rule to their rulebook for 2007. (I have the feeling they will mandate safety bases at first base within a few years.)

While the rule is not the best written rule I've ever seen, it clearly states that a runner may touch either the white or colored section of the base the first time by the base on a extra-base hit or other ball hit to the outfield. Touching the colored portion of the base on a home run is not grounds for appeal under Little League baseball rules. It's Rule 7.15(c).