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From: rkp@drutx.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Runner's tagging up and 4 outs.
Message-ID: <310@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-May-84 16:21:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 16:21:56 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 17-May-84 05:34:53 EDT
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The case with runner's on second and third with the
fly ball caught for the second out, runner back to second for the
second out, and then thrown home for the tag to make 4 outs is
really outrageous.  Someone must have been pulling your leg.

Yesterday I saw this one.  Trevino on third and Murphy on first
with one out.  Chambliss lines one to right center.  Trevino is
staying at third to tag up and score.  Murphy heads on around
second since the ball appears like it's going to drop in for a
hit.  Frobel makes a running catch on the track for out number
two.  Trevino tags up at third and literally walks in home for the
tying run.  BUT, Murphy has to put on the brakes around second and
race back to first base, because, if the throw from Frobel gets to
first before Murphy gets back, it is the third out (a force play)
and the run doesn't score.  (Fortunately, he got back, and the
Braves made a great comeback in the bottom of the 10th to win.)

So, the description by that nasty old Braves hater from Athens, GA
couldn't be accurate.  Once the third out is made, the inning is
over.  No runs can score on a force play so there is no reason to
make the throw to the home plate.

Russ Pierce
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