EdFred
every day I'm shovelin'
Last night's game, and I'm watching this whole thing happen from my defensive position at 1B.
Batter hits ball to gap between LF and LC. SS goes out to take cut-off throw, 2B moves to third base side of second base to back up the cut-off throw to the SS. Batter-runner safely advances to second. After stopping at second the batter-runner decides he can make it to third with a bobbled ball in the OF. 2B claims he was on the infield side of the baseline between second and third. (From my point of view I couldn't tell for sure that was the case.) At the same time the batter-runner was starting to run to third while watching the ball in the outfield, so he may have very well drifted to the infield side of the line between second and third.
Batter-runner does some weird pirouette, (looked like contact, 2B claimed no contact) crashes to the ground, and lands awkwardly halfway between second and third. Cut-off throw is missed badly (hey, it's league) and the pitcher ends up with the ball. Batter-runner looks like a turtle on its back as he's writhing in pain. Pitcher starts to advance toward the batter-runner to tag him, slows up realizing the guy is hurt, the batter-runner attempts to crawl back to second base and at this point the umpire calls......time, with the batter-runner not on any base.
Where do you put the batter-runner?
(I believe he would have made it safely to third but made no attempt to go that direction after the pirouette.)
After a conference the umpires placed the batter-runner on third.
Batter hits ball to gap between LF and LC. SS goes out to take cut-off throw, 2B moves to third base side of second base to back up the cut-off throw to the SS. Batter-runner safely advances to second. After stopping at second the batter-runner decides he can make it to third with a bobbled ball in the OF. 2B claims he was on the infield side of the baseline between second and third. (From my point of view I couldn't tell for sure that was the case.) At the same time the batter-runner was starting to run to third while watching the ball in the outfield, so he may have very well drifted to the infield side of the line between second and third.
Batter-runner does some weird pirouette, (looked like contact, 2B claimed no contact) crashes to the ground, and lands awkwardly halfway between second and third. Cut-off throw is missed badly (hey, it's league) and the pitcher ends up with the ball. Batter-runner looks like a turtle on its back as he's writhing in pain. Pitcher starts to advance toward the batter-runner to tag him, slows up realizing the guy is hurt, the batter-runner attempts to crawl back to second base and at this point the umpire calls......time, with the batter-runner not on any base.
Where do you put the batter-runner?
(I believe he would have made it safely to third but made no attempt to go that direction after the pirouette.)
After a conference the umpires placed the batter-runner on third.