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From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson)
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Subject: Re: Answers to Rule Quiz (Long)
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 12:27:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 12:27:03 1985
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I do not agree with your interpretation of the rules in the first
question in the quiz.

> 1) Man on first base, no outs.  Batter hits a line drive to the second 
> baseman, who tries to double the runner off first base.  However, the 
> throw is wild and goes into the dugout.  Where does the runner end up?
> Third.
> Rule 7.05: "Each runner including the batter runner may, without liability
> to be put out, advance --" ...
> (g) "Two bases when, with no spectators on the playing field, a thrown ball
> goes into the stands...

Now it seems to me that the two bases awarded are the one the runner
is heading for and the next one.  E.g., if a ground ball is thrown into
the dugout, the batter-runner gets awarded first, which he had not yet
reached, and second.  In the case above, the two bases awarded the
runner are first, to which he was no longer entitled because of the
caught fly, and therefore must "tag up," and second.

> ...When such wild throw
> is the first play by an infielder, the umpire, in awarding such bases,
> shall be governed by the position of the runners at the time the ball was
> pitched; in all other cases the umpire shall be governed by the position of 
> the runner at the time the wild throw was made."

The first play was the catching of the fly, which changed the position
of the runner from being entitled to first, on his way to second, to
not being entitled to first, and on his way back to first.

Such is my reasoning; where do you think I err?

Gary Samuelson
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