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Why was the ASA adv 4th out rule changed?
Does anyone know? There must have been some rationale to requiring that the 4th out can only be on a runner who has scored, instead of the broader requirement that it remove a run from the board.
Unfortunately, I don't have any documentation on the rules changes for 2003, so I don't know if the change was commented on at the time.
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And to be honest with you, I missed it the change.
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"Only"?
I don't have an ASA rule book earlier than 2005. The '05-'06 rule books both say, in 5-C:
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It seems to me that the 4th out has many more possibilities than this, and there's little guidance what to do. But then again, I'm probably overthinking it.
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I just don't understand the rationale behind the change. It is even more mystifying given the apparent back-door nature of the change (was not voted on at the national convention, etc.). I wonder if it was somebody's pet change who was involved in the writing / editing of the rule book, and they just put it in. If so, that would not appear to have followed the process ASA has in place for changing the playing rules.
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This may have been done prior to 2002 and just not hit the book, that documentation I do not have. Also, a "fourth-out" appeal is more of a permissive interpretation than a rule and maybe that is how it was handled.
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