BOO or Ineligible Player

[AtlUmpSteve]

Originally Posted by KJUmp

Which is the rule in PONY...

Rule 4 Sec.5 Offensive Unreported Substitutes: If a substitute enters the game without reporting, the following shall apply:
c. If the unreported substitute is discovered after completing her turn at bat and after the next pitch:
(1) She is declared an illegible player
(2) Called out.
(3) Restricted to the bench.
(4) Any advance by base-runners while the ineligible batter was at bat, is legal.
(5) Manager shall be removed from the game.

PLAY Jones a legal substitute, enters the game in the third inning unreported. In the fifth inning, the opponents report this to the umpire.

RULING The player (Jones) is immediately removed, declared an illegible player and restricted to the bench. All play by or on Jones is legal. A legal substitute must be reported into the game. Manager is removed from the game.

Earlier this season, the PONY National UIC sent out an approved ruling that in a case like that in the OP, where the Flex (unreported) entered the game offensively and hit for a player other than the DP.
The AR was that this was to be considered an illegible player situation, not a BOO; and Rule 4 Sec.5 would apply.

OK, Kevin, just want to understand/clarify, as I have no knowledge about Pony at all.

Illegible means unable to read it or understand it; did you mean ineligible (not capable of being there), illegal (cannot legally be there) or does the rule actually use that word, illegible?

Foregiveness granted if you "smartphone" changed the word for you.