DP/Flex...and ejection

[WestMichBlue]

Difficult question - you have rules conflicts here. (2003 ASA book)

1. 4.1.C.2 says that 10 players are required to start a game when you have a DP/FLEX.

2. 4.1.D.2.A says that you cannot continue with one less (ie. nine) due to ejection.

3. 4.3.D allows you to return to nine players when using the DP/FLEX.

If I were forced to decided this, I would give preference to the DP/FLEX rules and allow the legal shift to 9 players (which would negate 4.1.D.2.A) and I would allow the game to end.

If the home can tie the game up, then the visitors would forfeit when they came to bat. (Now 4.1.D.2.A is valid because they are playing with one less (8) then current line up (9) and that one less is due to ejection.

WMB