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Originally posted by Dakota

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Huh?

Runner leaves early from 1B on a caught fly.

Runner is past second when starts to return.

Defense attempts live ball appeal but overthrows 1B into DBT. Ball dead.

Runner now stranded (NFHS).
Runner may return to retouch (ASA).

NFHS: The defensive mistake (the overthrow into DBT) stranded the runner, giving the defense an out they could not earn with basic thrown & catch.

ASA: The defense blew their chance for an appeal by poor play. Runner returns and retouches.

Which seems more balanced to you?

My "Huh?" was about "it does take away possibilities from the offense", which seemed to mean or imply that the ASA rule restricts the offense more than the *FHS rule does.

But I also would like to know what I asked above about oversimplification.

WRT "simplifying things for umpires", rules that are not consistent with other codes never do that. :)

WRT "*FHS", I'm not sure we can call it "National" any more, if not all States follow it. ;)

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Originally posted by CecilOne
My "Huh?" was about "it does take away possibilities from the offense", which seemed to mean or imply that the ASA rule restricts the offense more than the *FHS rule does.

OIC... well, I knew what I meant, I don't know why you didn't! ;)

In my statement "it" = the NFHS rule. Wasn't that obvious? ;)

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Originally posted by CecilOne
WRT "*FHS", I'm not sure we can call it "National" any more, if not all States follow it. ;)

Not all states have ever followed NFHS for their high school sports. Besides, it is much more "national" than the NCAA championship is "world"! :rolleyes: