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TOPIC: Overthrow |
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| Bill
December 25, 2012
4:52:52 PM
Entry #: 4024037
| The runner gets the base they are going to plus one on a ball thrown out-of-play. True or False, and explain your answer.
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| Nov
December 28, 2012
1:00:54 AM
Entry #: 4024269
| False, though it usually ends up that way which is why the average player believes it to be true. The runners are awarded 2 bases from the last base attained when the throw is released, regardless of where the throw originates [infield or outfield]. It means nothing as far as which base a runner is closer to [one step from 2B or one step past 1B is the same – runner hasn’t attained 2B yet]. Couples of twists apply though. If 2 runners are between the same bases, the trail runner is awarded 2 bases and the leading runner is forced to advance one further [runner on 1B holds near 2B to see if fly is caught, batter has rounded 1B, ball not caught is then thrown and goes out of play. Batter gets 3B since he/she has attained 1B, and runner gets home. One odd case which I’ve never seen in person and hope to never see – if a runner on 1B has rounded 2B on a ball that ends up being caught and returns to 1B and before the runner retouches 2B on the way back, the ball is thrown and goes out of play – that runner is awarded home since they were between 2B & 3B at the time of the throw even though they had to get back to 1B before being doubled off. I don’t care who you are, an umpire making that call will get a rash of sh** from the defensive team if the correct call is made. Personally I wish ASA would change that quirk
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| Nov
December 28, 2012
1:01:37 AM
Entry #: 4024270
| sorry the answer was so long
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| Bill
January 2, 2013
10:07:46 AM
Entry #: 4024787
| Rule 8-5-G. Two-base award. All runners are awared two bases from the last base touched at the time of the "release" by the fielder (two bases from the time of the throw).
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