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Old Tue May 08, 2018, 11:30am
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NFHS Umpire manual (pg. 14) says "Umpires should leave the field together after giving the defensive team reasonable time for a possible appeal play".

What's reasonable? If I'm watching and nobody seems to making any move toward an appeal...I'm outta there!
But that's the problem, in my reading of the rules on appeals. When has it ever become an appealable situation when a runner fails to advance to an entitled base? The four types of appeals in Fed rule 2-1-2 does not include not advancing to an entitled base. The closest one that applies is missing a base, but if the runner never advanced to that base to begin with, did she really miss it?

If a runner fails to advance to a base and enters DBT, we don't need an appeal from the defense. We simply rule her out for abandonment. But if she doesn't enter DBT right away, are we allowed to accept an appeal for failing to advance and touch the base?
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