Does it behoove the B/R...?

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Originally Posted by Welpe

Here actual wording from the Wendelstedt Manual:




§8.4.1.b Appealable Plays

Appeals may only be made for runners either missing bases, or not legally tagging up from a base. If a third out is made during a play in which a runner never advances to a base he is forced to advance to (or the batter-runner never reaches first base), the defense may not then appeal that runner. This is a base never reached, not one they missed or one they did not legally tag up from; it cannot be appealed.

Interesting. What does Wendelstedt manual say about the umpire's responsibility to call outs for abandonment and desertion?