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Wed Oct 30, 2002, 10:58am
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Two Bases Everytime
Hepner, it's hard to believe the situation posed - the batter-runner can move around the bases nearly 200 feet yet the defense cannot move a similar distance to get under this towering fly ball....? NO matter - ruling is the same.
If a hit ball goes out-of-play, the defense has been denied opportunity to make a play. The offense is rewarded with a 2-base advancement for all runners. If the defense was afforded opportunity to field the ball and booted it into dead ball territory (hit ball touched the defense and then bounded into DBT - like the Canseco bounce off of his head over the homerun fence), this is a different story. Two bases are awarded from the time the ball went out of play (I don't have my books to confirm, but I'm pretty sure this is correct). Oh, and nice play Canseco!
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