This happened to us twice this weekend, once on offense and once on defense.
Field does not have a safety bag, so just a single base. And as we all know, the single first base is inside the foul line. Pretty straight forward.
Right handed hitter bunts, and then runs to first. The throw hits the runner, and runner is called out for running inside the baseline. I'm not entirely sure how from the right handed batters box you can run to first and be in foul territory and then reach out to the left on your last step to hit the bag. Both times the runner took a straight line from the batters box to first.
I would think they got this call wrong - even when it benefitted us. I do appreciate that it's subjective to some degree, but we thought it was crazy the runner was called out. Other base runners were also sent back to their original base.
Field does not have a safety bag, so just a single base. And as we all know, the single first base is inside the foul line. Pretty straight forward.
Right handed hitter bunts, and then runs to first. The throw hits the runner, and runner is called out for running inside the baseline. I'm not entirely sure how from the right handed batters box you can run to first and be in foul territory and then reach out to the left on your last step to hit the bag. Both times the runner took a straight line from the batters box to first.
I would think they got this call wrong - even when it benefitted us. I do appreciate that it's subjective to some degree, but we thought it was crazy the runner was called out. Other base runners were also sent back to their original base.