Tagging Up

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

In baseball rules you cannot "unscore" a legally scored run. So if the fly is caught and you need to tag the run was not legally scored so you can retreat. But if the ball is not caught then the run has scored and nothing the runner does can unscore it.

Do (should) the various softball codes have the same?

If this is true (and I'm not convinced yet), then in baseball, this player's tactic would have worked the way he wanted it to. I can't imagine, were this the actual case, that NO ONE in 100+ years of ball has thought of trying this on a sky-fly-ball, especially a high and short one that they aren't likely to score on anyway.