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Old Tue Jun 30, 2009, 02:22pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve View Post

Where does it mention the situation where the runner is just standing there minding his own business and gets shoved off the base and tagged? That exception is not addressed, which is why common sense is applied in absence of a clear ruling. This is an ommission in the rules, most likely one of the 235 mistakes in the rules that Jimbo preaches about but never makes MLB fix. Color me confused there. I guess if he had MLB fix all the broken parts of the book, nobody could make money on interpretation manuals.
No error, no omission.

There is no rule that protects a runner who is bumped off the base by incidental contact. At lower levels you might do that, but not HS or above.
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