What Happened to Fourth Out thread?

[rwest]

Originally Posted by youngump

Didn't we just do this a few days ago? The learned men tell me that the key is that for a run to score the runner must ***legally*** touch all the bases. If they get home without legally touching all the bases they may return and try and correct the error and are subject to being put out. Once they legally touch all the bases there is nothing they can do to unscore. The only thing they can do by going back to third is to commit interference.

Rule 5-5-A doesn't use the term "legally". The run would count if the runner missed each and every base and could only be negated on appeal. There's no rule reference that I know of that says that a runner returning to third negates the run. A runner who returns to third base when they don't have to by rule does not negate the score. At least that's the ruling in Fed, per case play 9.1.1 situation B and I'm assuming ASA is similar.

So, if the relay to 2nd was not in time and both runners made it back to their previous base safely, you are going to count the score and remove the runner from third since he already scored? And now the defense can't appeal to negate the run?

I believe negating the run is the correct thing to do, but we don't have a rule per se to govern this. We have to use 10-1 and make a ruling on something not expressly covered by the rulebook.