Re-read the rule that CPEM quoted, specifically the note:
When the INT is called, the ball is dead, the runner is out, and the batter is awarded first base. She doesn't come up again. That's how you fill in the box: awarded first base -- I think it affects stats similarly to a FC, but don't...
Wow, horrible mistake I made there.
Ajaywill and Comp are correct, of course; it should have read as Ajaywill says; a pitch to the NEXT batter makes the PREVIOUS batter legal. I knew what I meant, but I sure didn't write what I meant.
Edit: I'm leaving this here so that the later posts make sense, but it's so mangled that fixing it will probably just make it worse. Pay no attention to this; read Ajaywill's and Comp's subsequent posts.
Until there's an appeal, nothing happens, so the defense can appeal or not, as it...
That's an IP; the pitcher can rub her hands in the dirt and then go to the ball, but can't rub the ball in the dirt. That was an official interp in 2013 (situation 5 at that link).
How far down the line was the batter-runner? Was the throw on target?
I've never done ISF, but it appears that under their rules the penalty does not include an out anyway, just ejection:
Edit: Unless the sub was unreported. Section 8b.
They have hitting coaches, and some orgs used to have roving instructors, who generally worked more in the minors than the majors - they may still have those.
But I think if you took a kid who just made it to the bigs, and said to him, "Here, meet Big Jim Farnswoggle, he washed out of the...
When I was a kid (and dinosaurs walked the earth), I read a book on playing baseball. Its advice, which I've passed along many times since, was:
It's okay to run like a man carrying a stove, as long as you move as if the stove was hot!
Just a thought - maybe the other coach was from elsewhere, and Coach A wanted to convince Coach B that there were no good players in the area so that Coach A could have the cream of the crop himself?
Edit: Dang, Chinamigarden, you type faster than me.
You can't protest judgment calls, that's correct. (An appeal is when you bring a particular violation of the rules to the umpire's attention, most notably a runner missing a base or a player batting out of order.)
Dixie's rules are online; here's the obstruction rule (it's basically the MLB rule, with two kinds of obstruction, this one being what the baseball guys call Type B, with no play being made):
So, umpire's judgment on what base to award the runner. That much is the same in all rule sets I'm...