(FED) Missing a base DOES NOT remove the force

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Exception—No runner can be forced out if a runner who follows in the batting order is put out first. However, if a runner is put out during live action, it does not remove the force on any runners who might subsequently be declared out for a running infraction.

Dave: Thanks for the citation. I don't do NCAA baseball and don't even have an NCAA book, so I simply followed the BRD's explanation. I agree that the NCAA rule is vague. It should probably read, ". . . any runner who might subsequently be declared out on appeal for missing a base to which he was forced at the time he missed the bag." (After all, the only baserunning error possible is a missed base, since leaving early on a fly ball cannot apply. Further, the term running infraction is overly broad, since it could be applied to something like running out of the baseline to avoid a tag.) But I would have to agree that the BRD's conclusion seems unfounded.

Adhering to the notion of "time the play began" is indeed a strange interpretation. It would mean that when the BR is put out, a runner who had been forced to a base, though no longer forced, somehow reinstitutes the force play by a subsequent miss. Doesn't make sense.

[Dave Reed]

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