Missed Base - Homerun

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by greymule

I know I've seen gross miss and would have bet it was from the J/R, but all I see is "complete bypass" and "more than a body length." The BRD also uses those terms. On a quick look, I don't see the play covered in the PBUC.

My 2006 BRD also cites Play 6-4 when apparently they meant Play 5-4, a mistake that creates serious confusion.

From the 2006 BRD "ruling": "'Last time by' applies to situations where the runner could have touched the base but missed it by less than his body's length."

I, too, found "more than a body length" in J/R (ch. 9, sec. 2). As near as I can tell it's one of those things they made up, like "relaxed/unrelaxed." It fills a vacuum and is useful, and in the absence of conflicting authority I'd use it. Still, I'd like to read it somewhere else...