Out or ?

[PeteBooth]

Originally posted by reed2310

Base's loaded, ball four to batter, runner coming home misses home plate and continues to dug-out. No appeal & play resumes. My question is should i signal safe if the runner touches home. Since the runner did not touch home i stood ther looking at home plate, the catcher gets back in his position so i assume my position and we play ball. In my opinion it is the catchers job to catch that on a walk. Please correct me if i am wrong. I value your all's opinion

If the defense does not make a play say Nothing. The runner beat the play. We only make calls when it warrents it. For example; R1, F1 in the set and throws to F3. If F3 simply catches the ball and does not apply any sort of tag or tag attempt, I say nothing.

The runner is SAFE until prooven he /she is out. As far as the first base mechanic is concerned, we signal safe (when runner beat the throw but misses the base) because there was a play. A play is defined as the defense making an attempt to retire a runner.

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