Base Awards

[SC Ump]

I have just moved and do not have any rulebooks to verify this, but here is my memory of what I have been taught. I apologize if I am mixing up a couple of different orgs (FED, ASA or NSA).

It is dependent on who supplies the impetus causing the ball to go into DBT. Examples:

1. Ball is hit, rolling toward a DBT and a fielder touches the ball, perhaps changing its direction, but the ball was still going fast enough from the force of being hit, that it went into DBT: award two bases from time of pitch.

2. Ball is hit and either stopped or rolling so slowing that it will not reach any DBT. A fielder mishandles the ball in some way and the fielder causes it to accidentally go into DBT: award one base from the time the ball entered DBT, the same as if the ball is mishandled during a tag play.

[Edited by SC Ump on Jun 27th, 2004 at 02:04 AM]