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Originally Posted by ManInBlue

And you are saying it shouldn't be balked b/c an appeal, by rule, is not a play? Therefore F1 is not "throwing to an unoccupied base?"

Do I have the jist, or am I (pardon the pun) way off base.

You're wrong twice, so they cancel each other out. ;)

1) An appeal is a play (the statement in the rule book that "an appeal is not a play" applies only to allowing multiple appeals)

2) A pitcher is allowed to throw to an unoccupied base for the purpose of making a play.

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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

MIB,

ALL rule codes allow the pitcher to throw to an unoccupied base for the purpose of making an appeal.

In FED, it's kind of a moot point because of their dead ball appeal.

JM

Its moot and mute in South Carolina since we don't have appeals...verbal or otherwise!