What is this?

Dakota · #1 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:29am

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?

RKBUmp · #2 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:38am

From description of F3 reaching for the base with foot I would assume this happened right at 1st base. Did batter/runner fall past the base after being tripped? If so, by rule they are considered to have touched the base until properly appealed. I would not consider F3 to have made a proper appeal unless they verbally indicated the batter/runner had missed the base.

Manny A · #3 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:40am

Can't have obstruction since F3 has the ball in her possession. She didn't intentionally trip the BR (and even if she had, I'm not sure what rule you would use to award the BR first since it's still not covered by the obstruction rule).

I don't see anything that would warrant a call other than an out at first on the BR, unless I'm missing something.

IRISHMAFIA · #4 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:46am

Quote:

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 · #5 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 07:53am

Quote:

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 · #6 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 08:20am

I have an out.

Rich Ives · #7 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 08:55am

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

RKBUmp · #8 (**permalink**) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 08:57am

Quote:

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.