ASA Look Back Rule II

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Okay, enough

The wording in the RS states that the exception applies when the pitcher makes a play on ANOTHER runner. IOW, making a play on a runner stopped on a base only releases other runners, not the one toward which the pitcher made the play.

I think this is just a remnant of a "housekeeping" change requested at the Central Atlantic Regional Clinic a year or two ago.

Problem is, Mike, we are all too used to ASA's fractured syntax to take the bait...