Not Touching Home on Walk Advance

[Rich Ives]

Originally Posted by jabberwocknot

Riddle me this.....

Bases loaded. Batter walks. Runner on third advances home but does not touch home plate (it really happened!) Runner then turns and starts for his dugout on the 3rd baseline. Gets 3-4 steps along when everyone starts yelling. Catcher has the ball and tags him while he is returning the 3-4 steps but before he finally touches home plate.

My call - run scores. Blown or good call? I scoured the Rules but did not find an answer.

If he never got to the plate he's safe - just took a circuitous route..

If he stepped over or went past the plate then he's out on the appeal.

[rbmartin]

Originally Posted by rich ives

if he never got to the plate he's safe - just took a circuitous route..

If he stepped over or went past the plate then he's out on the appeal.

+1

[Manny A]

I'm confused by the responses here. Some make it sound like the runner can miss home plate and still be allowed to go back and touch it without liability, until he walks into the dugout. Is that true if he passes home plate, or only if he comes up short? The OP wasn't clear what exactly the runner did to miss home.

[RPatrino]

I had to re-read the original post to understand it. I believe the runner from third just didn't run all the way to the plate, veered toward his bench area, but hadn't reached it yet.