FED

[TxUmp]

Originally posted by TxUmp
[B]A further complication to my original post:

The situation is now further expanded to the 7th inning, home team down 1 run, 2 outs, bases loaded, B1 hits safely, and R1 misses 2nd and is thrown out before reaching 3rd for the 3rd out. R3 and R2 have scored before the play at 3rd. The game is over in either case. Defense does not realize that R1 missed 2nd.

If you call the "accidental" appeal, no runs score because of the force play at 2nd and the visitors win. If you don't call it, two runs score and the home team wins. How are you going to get off the field alive?

I think many of you are missing the point of my question.

Everyone (players, coaches and fans - and probably your partner) thinks the game is over because the home team has just scored two runs to go up 1 run on the same play where the 3rd out is recorded on the same play. The game is over in any case.

BUT if you call the "accidental" appeal on R1 for missing second base, NO RUNS SCORE and the VISITING team wins!

How do you handle this situation? Ignore it and you are intentionally ignoring a rule situation which changes the outcome of the game. But you are the ONLY one who saw it or knows the rule.

You can walk off the field and everyone is happy, except you.

Call it and you have started a war! But you got the rule right.

Does this fall in the category of "Don't make trouble for yourself!"? Can you feel that you have not compromised your integrity if you don't call a rule that you know should be correctly applied in this situation?

I like the new appeal procedure, but we should do away with the accidental appeal possibility.