Brett Lawrie - Failing to Retouch?

[SAump]

Citation 7.08i (eye) comment.

Take the same pop up slide and carry his momentum away from third base, does he have to retouch 2B?
http://www.thescore.com/home/article...another-umpire

"Touching the Bases in Order and Retouching
It's understood that a runner must advance from first to home by touching the bases in order. Where the confusion comes in for some people is when the player must go back to their original base. In this case the player must retouch all bases in reverse order. This situation occurs most often in the following example:

Runner on first base. Ball is hit into the outfield and the runner thinks it's going to drop. He runs past second base and the ball is then caught by the outfielder. He needs to get back to first base before the throw in order to not be forced out.

The correct way for him to do this is to first retouch second base before running back to first. If he runs back to first without retouching second base, the correct call would be for him to be out."

[thumpferee]

First video, ump nailed it!

Second video, ump got nailed!

[asdf]

Originally Posted by SAump

Take the same pop up slide and carry his momentum away from third base, does he have to retouch 2B?

Probably not, but purely a HTBT.

His original pop up slide didn't take him to 3rd, it took him "up". In trying to find the ball (like any good baserunner) he made an attempt towards third, thus making him responsible for re-touching because the ball was caught.

If that same action (the sideways shuffling of the feet) happens after passing first base ( usually when the ball gets past F3), that's going to be ruled an attempt to advance as well.

[johnnyg08]

Mr. Lawrie is establishing quite the reputation for himself.

[jwwashburn]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

Mr. Lawrie is establishing quite the reputation for himself.

I do not think he was out of line in this play...he jawed a little and left...he he had been out of line, they would have dumped him.

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by jwwashburn

I do not think he was out of line in this play...he jawed a little and left...he he had been out of line, they would have dumped him.

Other than throwing a helmet at an umpire prior to the 4 game suspension.

[jwwashburn]

I meant this play.

[johnnyg08]

I guess my point was that he'd maybe be a little calmer considering the last time...especially b/c he really looks like even more of an idiot b/c he was 100% wrong for throwing the fit (arguing something that he clearly lost because he was wrong)....he reminds me of that idiot from U of South Carolina who faked getting beaned and took it so far that he got ejected only to have the video remain on You Tube for eternity.