Can forced runner retreat along baseline?

[UmpJM]

UmpTT,

I presume you meant to say a "BR to retreat towards Home Plate", rather than 1B?

If so, it's in the MLBUM (nothing is said on the subject in the text of the rules themselves).

NOTE: In situations where the batter-runner gets in a rundown between first and home, if the batter-runner retreats and reaches home plate, he shall be declared out.

JM

[DG]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

UmpTT,

I presume you meant to say a "BR to retreat towards Home Plate", rather than 1B?

If so, it's in the MLBUM (nothing is said on the subject in the text of the rules themselves).



JM

Would not be a lot of point to doing it unless defense has completely forgotten about other runners and they are advancing like crazy while BR backs up toward HP. But it has to end somewhere, so thus the ruling.