Illegal offensive player and illegal defensive player...

[youngump]

Originally Posted by DaveASA/FED

Well since this is an official NFHS interp. I would say if it ever happened in a game I was umpiring I would rule as they have noted. My personal take on it? I think as it is listed it seems "fair" if you can do that. Each team violated a rule, each "lost" something because of that violation. Defense lost one out, offense lost a run.

It says one possible ruling and doesn't seem to constrain the results to that approach. The way I'd prefer to see it go: these are going to be enforced in the order they occurred. If the offense comes out and tells me we had an illegal defensive player and they want to repeat the play, then we're going to do that and I no longer have an illegal offensive player who hit the ball. Similar logic can be applied if the defense gets out there first.