ever heard of this situation before??

Rookie31

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It happen to quite a few teams this weekend in Vegas. Except it was on homeruns. They were enforcing the one bag rule, but whenever a runner walked the wrong way or hesitated on going to the next bag, the ump called them out for "quitting". Guys weren't even completely off line or off the field, ump just enforced the rule early in the morning and ended up having to enforce it in every one of his games.

What happen to us was man on 2nd with 2 outs and batter hits a homerun. He jogs to first as runner on second runs half way and off the field. Calls him out for quitting and gives us 1 run. Happened a few times through out the day with batters walking off or runners walking back in. He would call the person out. Trickiest one was runner on 1st and 2nd and batter hit a Homerun. Runner from 1st jogs halfway, once it goes out he take 1 or 2 steps back remembers the rule and tries to continue to 2nd, ump called him out anyway. Just weird overall
 

jsam21238

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So the winning run can steal/advance on ball 3, but he has to be forced on ball 4?

Don't know what you're trying to say there...

It's not the lead runners in question here, it is the trail runners. They still have to legally acquire their next base after a walk, even if the lead runner crosses the plate as the "winning run", or they are at liability to be put out
 

aburhart

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Kinda the same thing. About 4 years ago I got called out for not touching second base when the guy up to bat hit a homerun.
 
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