My answer: POTEDO #2

[Carl Childress]

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Originally posted by bob jenkins:
I agree. That's what the appeal "play" is for. No one is "making" F2 chase the runner in the dugout.

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Pete and Bob:

I argued the same as you both.

I was wrong. So are you.

I don't make the rulings; I just report them.

Wendelstedt's appeared in 1989.

Eleven years later Cris Jones for the PBUC backed him up.

That's a consistency over time that becomes official in my mind.

Try this:

Play: R2 scores on B1's single. The defense announces it will appeal that R2 missed third. As the pitcher steps off the rubber, B1 breaks for second. If the defense plays on him, it loses its right to appeal R3.

That ain't fair. That's wrong.

But it is the rule.

Life is tough.

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Papa C
Editor, eUmpire