How do you interpret the following rule (ASA 8-2-D, FED 8.2.4)
The batter-runner shall eb called out when: the batter-runner fails to advance to 1st base and enters the team area after a batted fair ball, a base on balls, a hit batter (F.P.) , a droppred third strike (F.P.), or catcher obstruction.
Exception: (s.P.) The ball is dead on a base on balls, or on a hit batter (F.P.) the ball is dead , the batter-runner is not out and runners cannot advance unless forced.
Does the exception override the rule thus making it ok for the BR to enter the dugout after a HBP (the only ruling that makes sense to me, BTW). If so why go to the trouble to put it into the rule at all?
SamC
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Mon Sep 29, 2003, 02:43pm
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