What is this?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Dakota

No runners on base. Batter hits an infield grounder to F5, who fumbles a bit, and makes a not very good throw to F3, pulling F3 off the bag toward home. F3 makes the catch, but is reaching back with her foot to try to find the bag, unsuccessfully. Her flailing foot/leg is stretched out into foul territory, tripping up the BR, who goes down. F3 does find the bag and touch it before the BR can scramble over to the base.

So, what is this?

Rule set?

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Rule set?

ASA.

Also, to answer RKBUmp's question, she was far enough up the line that the BR fell just short of 1B, so no appeal.

[MD Longhorn]

I have an out.

[Rich Ives]

So is RKBUmp wrong in the softball world? (It's the right approach in baseball.)

[RKBUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich Ives

So is RKBUmp wrong in the softball world? (It's the right approach in baseball.)

He indicated in another post the batter/runner fell short of 1st base so having passed the base never came into play.

[Manny A]

I'm still waiting for something that isn't apparent to me, even after a multitude of cups of coffee. I don't understand how this isn't a pretty straightforward situation, especially since Mike felt compelled to ask for a specific rule set.

Is there something out there where this F3 would be guilty of some infraction? I cannot see awarding the BR first base here since F3 had possession of the ball.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Manny A

I'm still waiting for something that isn't apparent to me.

I don't think there's anything not apparent to you, or the rest of us. I think this is one of those, "Something looked odd there but I didn't know what to call, so I'll ask about it on the forum" situations. And as it turns out, there's nothing to call.

It could be one of those "an umpire in my game called XXXXX on a weird play in my game and I didn't understand why, so I'll ask about it on the forum" situations - in which case the umpire probably messed up.