What's the reasoning?

[Roger Greene]

Consider the Fed rules. The ruling makes perfect sense.
Take the offense one step at a time as it happened, just as you would a live ball play. Naturally the offense, as Mike pointed out, hasn't actually happened untill the ball is made live. (It should be killed immediately after being made live if you are aware of the sitch at that point.)

1: The trailling runner is out for passing a preceeding runner (8-6-4)

2: The lead runner is out for abandoning a base (8-6-22) Note that this is apparently different from ASA in that the runner does not have to enter the team area to abandon. Note how the conjunction is used in the sentence to read abandons a base (or) enter the team area.

3: The ejection is under 3-6-15 in which the penalty gives the option of "shall eject... unless the offense is judged to be of a minor nature. ..."

Roger Greene

Edit: All of the cites I gave were from the 2004 book.



[Edited by Roger Greene on Jan 9th, 2004 at 09:17 AM]