- Jun 28, 2016
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It was USSSA game.
Yep, run scores in USSSA. From the 2016 USSSA case book.
SITUATION B: Bases loaded with two outs. With a 3-2 count on B6, the runners break with the pitch. B6
walks as overzealous R2 from second slides past third and is tagged out when F2 throws to F5 before R1
touches home plate.
RULING: R1 became entitled to home as soon as ball four was declared. R1 is awarded home and R1’s
run is scored. R2 is out. Three outs. (8-14-D-4)
At a showcase last week, I was watching a team that routinely had its runners round first base after a walk, then immediately go back. I was sitting next to two college coaches, and one of them sorta gasped and said, 'She's out, right?' I'm not an umpire, but I was thinking that she's fine, assuming that she didn't pause.
Don't give any credence to someone being a "college coach" meaning they know the rules, they can be just as bad as anyone else
NCAA rules are not the same as ASA or high school with regard to rounding first base. I don't mind being corrected by someone with better knowledge, but that may be an out under NCAA rules.
At a showcase last week, I was watching a team that routinely had its runners round first base after a walk, then immediately go back.
How did the batter/runner have ball 4 called and get to 1st to begin the process while the runner on 3rd had not reached the plate. How did a proposed play happen then before that runner reached home plate? How did the runner from 2nd get to 3rd, round it, hold her position enabling the call? Did the player going home fall down? Did she write a letter home to mom? Think of the timing of this. This is almost an impossibility per the timing required. I'm dying to hear what the runner on 3rd was doing.
What is the purpose of this, and why would you teach it? After seeing that a couple times, I'd make a quick throw to my 1B for a pick-off.