NCAA question

[zm1283]

This question is in the preseason guide they gave out at the NCAA meetings. It is on the Arbiter too. I agree it's not a very good question.

[MD Longhorn]

What were the 4 options?

[zm1283]

The video question with R2 getting picked off at 2nd and getting in a rundown is a real mess. F5 drops the ball while trying to tag R2 who probably doesn't leave the basepath as he avoids the potential tag. I would have nothing, but that isn't really one of the options.

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by zm1283

The video question with R2 getting picked off at 2nd and getting in a rundown is a real mess. F5 drops the ball while trying to tag R2 who probably doesn't leave the basepath as he avoids the potential tag. I would have nothing, but that isn't really one of the options.

I thought that one was easy (all of the above was my answer). The runner may have been out of the baseline but the fielder never had possession of the ball.

[johnnyg08]

Sorry dash. I hit the wrong button. I didn't change anything in your post.

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

I thought that one was easy (all of the above was my answer). The runner may have been out of the baseline but the fielder never had possession of the ball.

But if there's no ball, you don't have a baseline violation. So that makes "B" incorrect...I think it's b anyway.

This question has some odd choices, so you might be right.

I think "A" is the best answer of the four options.

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by zm1283

The video question with R2 getting picked off at 2nd and getting in a rundown is a real mess. F5 drops the ball while trying to tag R2 who probably doesn't leave the basepath as he avoids the potential tag. I would have nothing, but that isn't really one of the options.

I think if you have "nothing" then IMO, A has to be your choice.

That being said, I'm not claiming to be the expert.

[dash_riprock]

A says the runner must be tagged,
B says the runner is out of the baseline but it only applies if the fielder has the ball and is making a tag attempt
C says pretty much the same thing as B.
D is all of the above

It has to be D.

[johnnyg08]

For the purpose of discussion, unless you don't judge him to be out of his base path. Then it can't be B or C, so then it's not D, so it has to be A.

[dash_riprock]

"For the being 'out of the baseline principle' to apply, the fielder must have secured the ball and be attempting a tag."

Why isn't this correct?