Pinch Run

[klp3515]

If a pinch run is put in for the first baseman is he declared as a substitute. Then does the first baseman have to re-enter than the pinch run is out for the rest of the game.

[Jim Porter]

Your question depends largely on the set of rules under which you are playing.

If you're talking Major League Baseball (Official Baseball Rules) then a pinch runner would indeed be a substitute, and the first baseman would be out for the game. There is no re-entry in the OBR.

Other sets of codes allow for courrtesy runners and/or special pinch runners. Some sets of codes allow re-entry, Some rules prohibit re-entry.

So, under which rules would you like your question answered?

[gmtomko]

Fed rules would consider this a substitution and re-entry would be possible for the player that the pinch runner replaced.

Courtesy runners are allowed for the pitcher or catcher at any time they are on base if the speed-up rules are adopted by the state. The restriction is that a single courtesy runner cannot run for both the pitcher and catcher in the same half inning and they cannot be in the game in any other capacity (starter or sub) at the time they are used.

[DownTownTonyBrown]

FED rules allow by State adoption the use of courtesy runners for the PITCHER and the CATCHER as a method of speeding up the game. These are not considered substitutions.

A pinch-runner for anyone else besides the current pitcher or catcher would need to be a substitution and therefore the substitute/pinch-runner would be done if he is replaced (either by another substitue or by re-entry of the original player).