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Missed 1B - double 1B appeal?
Batted ball to F6, B-R dives in to 1B, touching the white bag with his hand, beating the throw.
While still laying on the ground and touching the base, the B-R is tagged by F3 who appeals for a missed base. B-R still has not touched the colored bag, but - OTOH - the appeal has to be made before the B-R returns to the bag. So is he out - touching the white base is no different than being off the base returning from RF? Or safe because it is too late to appeal? WMB |
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The BR never left the base, so he cannot "return", failed to touch the appropriate base when a play was obviously being executed at 1B and never "passed" the base to allow 8.3.B into consideration. Granted, the umpire would really have to be on top of this play to see the hand touching the wrong base, but for the scenario offered, I'll honor the appeal. |
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Wasn't this, or a play very much like it, discussed here a year or so ago? As I recall, the discussion divided on two points:
1) Safe, because you cannot honor an appeal for missing a base that the runner is touching at the time of the appeal, and after the BR reaches 1B (whether missed or not), the base becomes one big bag; 2) Out, because the runner did not "return" to the double base since the runner never left the base. I think I lean toward #1. |
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Isn't the concept of "passed a base" a way of saying the runner does not have to touch the base as long as s/he covers the distance to the base and at some point is in the air space of the base?
Is "passed a base" synonymous with "reached a base"? If those are true, does it matter whether the hand or foot is on the top of the base ("passed" the leading edge) or just touching the side of the base? The wording of returning to a base possibly is because, like a lot of other rules, based on a specific visualization or case; with the principle applying more broadly. So, if the returning to a base principle really means having contact with the base after "passing/reaching"; then we should consider that the OP runner is safe from appeal. Also, we have to look at rules that were written before double bags were added in that light, IOW what did it mean when we only had a single bag. |
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Argue if you must, but you will lose the protest if you apply it in any contradictory manner. |
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Safe, can't call a runner out for missing the base they are standing on.
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I would have an out on this play. |
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It could. It depends on what you are talking about. You changed the scenario to the ball being in someone else's hands. In SP, the PU should have declared "time" if there is no immediate action by the defense to make an appeal. Once the ball is dead and the runner is standing on the base, no appeal is available. In FP, where you people insist on have a "live ball" game (which it really isn't), the appeal would have to be in a expeditious manner or I'm moving on with the game. |
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I realize what ASA 8-2-M-3-Effect says, but seeing that the B/R must use the colored half of the base in this situation, touching the white base is the same as not actually touching the base. Thoughts? |
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However, you based your original reply on the use of the words "passed" and "returned" in the rules. The meanings of those words do not change with time, so if the appeal is not made quickly, what did the runner do that invalidates the appeal made after the coach yells, ball thrown around, etc. (assuming we are talking that inconveniently live-ball game)? |
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Does that count? :cool: |
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