You are correct. team control is essentially an extension of the player control rules to cover all players on the team with the ball.
Two keys.
1. There is no team control during a throwin or a shot (airborne shooter is the only exception).
2. Team control continues, once established, until the ball is dead, the shot is released, or the other team establishes team control. This is important to remember during loose balls.

Nope. Check your baseball rulebook.

Agree. No doubt. Correct.

Tie To Runner ?????
 

From M&M Guy: "I thought the tie always goes to the runner?"

From Mark Dexter: "Nope. Check your baseball rulebook."

Mark Dexter is correct:

THE TIE RULE MYTH

There is no such thing in the world of umpiring. The runner is either out or safe. The umpire must judge out or safe. It is impossible to judge a tie. Lets look at the rules (OBR) 6.05 deals with a batter becoming a runner and 7.08 deals with a runner going to 2nd, 3rd, or Home.

6.05 A batter is out when (j) After a third strike or after he hits a fair ball, he or first base is tagged before he touches first base.
Here, as it relates to time, the rule states the runner must be tagged before he touches first base. So if they were to happen at the same time, the runner would be safe because the runner was not tagged “before”.

7.08 Any runner is out when (e) He fails to reach the next base before a fielder tags him or the base, after he has been forced to advance by reason of the batter becoming a runner. Here it states that the runner must reach the base before the ball, thus a perception of time being a tie, the runner would be out.

So in conculsion, tie goes to runner at first and tie goes to fielders at the other bases.

That's incorrect. Professional instruction is that, on any force play and any play on the batter-runner at 1B, the runner must beat the ball to the base. If he doesn't, he's out. There are no ties, and 1B is no different.

Tie goes to the umpire. A runner must beat a throw. If they do not beat a throw, they are out plain and simple.

Peace

I'm pretty sure M&M knew this, and he was referencing an old thread.

Thank you.

When it comes to baseball, for the most part I'm in BIFS: Blissfully Ignorant Fanboy Status. But I do know this - the rule about the tie going to the runner is the exactly the same as the rule about a referee preventing overtimes: it pushes some peoples' buttons. ;)