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My guess is that the writers used the normally-plural pronoun "they" in an effort to be gender neutral. Both sexes play this sport under basically the same baserunning rules: I wish they (the writers) would use he and she more often to reduce confusion.
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Why not stick with standard rules nomenclature, such as "R2 was tagged" in this case.
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It's certainly not required of the center fielder... or the batter... or the scorekeeper.
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Hmmm ... but it is required of the pitcher by rule. But would anybody call this? By that I mean a really weak pitcher who just pitches slow pitch style has not pushed off or drug but I'd never thought of calling it illegal.
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